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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- £1.2 billion of new funding will be invested into the development of the Royal Air Force's Tempest project, according to the Defence Command Paper, which has set out plans for the future of the UK military.
The RAF will also benefit from additional F-35 jets.
The Chief of the Air Staff has spoken to Forces News about the future capabilities of the service, given the new investment.
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If the Army is changing and the Royal Navy is changing then common sense dictates that the RAF must change as well
They call it "changing" but in reality it's just their budgets getting slashed.
Well, that's one hell of an arguement, Gaz Sullivan. Mediiiicc hits the nail on the head.
@@VanderlyndenJengold Actually he didn't. But hey it looks good in a one liner YT comment.
@@Mediiiicc Wrong. The budget has been increased by 14% and done at a time when we are supporting millions of people and thousands of businesses during a Pandemic.
If that is 'slashing' can someone please slash my pensions?
Frankly I am surprised they didn't sell PoW and cancel all F-35s we are in THAT big a financial hole.
@@1chish Budget announcements should be taken with a pinch of salt. Fanfares of increased spending need to be investigated seriously and credence given to experts with the time and ability to do so. From what they determine we can ascertain what are new funds and where they are purported to be going. A lot is going into the MOD black hole of spending which means it will not produce any more personnel, weapons or equipment.
For instance: if you personally deduce that at the end of this parliament that there hasn't actually been a large, or 14%, increase in the defence budget, would it effect how you vote... assuming you are a UK citizen and can vote.
Use of more robots in the RAF? Imagine the savings they’ll make in hotel accommodation costs alone. Wowza!
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Its not about savings. Regardless of whether you like it or not, it is inevitable that 'robots' will be used, the most vulnerable part of a plane that takes up the most space is the pilot.
@@mattrowlands5751 errr..think you missed the point...
@@jonathantointon3704 Lol! They don’t get the joke - must be a bot 😉🍻
Really, good grief, and he's excited about that, 80% unmanned eventually.
Well then, propose better.
So the 20% will be cargo and passenger? Good news for teenage PlayStation gamers :)
Because fewer of his pilots will be getting killed and captured?
They'll most likely be remote controlled from somewhere else. Human input will still be required.
It actually means that the costs of training up pilots and getting to the amount of pilots you think you need are lowered, as you can supplement all of your pilots with drone wingmen, which helps in recruiting shortfalls and in overall costs.
I see the RAF as the technological wing of the Forces, with real wings.
@Bessie Hillum Submarines are the more sensible option to house a nuclear deterrant
@Bessie Hillum From space would violate, I believe, many international treaties about deployment of weapons in space (especially WMDs). Again, sub launched is the most sensible of options for a small, Island nation (land silos too vulnerable, air launched easy to counter).
@Bessie Hillum Russia? Space nukes? Please elaborate.
Its quite sad knowing that robots are taking over military aviation tbf.
Well, they say they are at least.
Working with not taking over.
bout time the "officer's flying club" was taken down a peg or two
@L.M.S studios ok?
It would be a great thing if they used robots and unmanned systems to pad out the numbers and to work alongside human pilots and other personnel, though I have a feeling they will cull the number of human pilots for every unmanned fighter they add (and the equivalent with other job roles).
The RAF missed a chance to change back in 2012. We should have handed all the harriers and merlins to the navy to support the RM’s and all the other rotary wings (puma and chinook) to the army air Corps. Keeping the RAF fixed wing only.
I think the RAF did hand all merlins over to the royal navy around 2013. Though I agree with your point the RAF having some Rotary winged aircraft does bring a practical advantage sometimes.
@@sebbers I think they started but didn’t hand over the fleet for a while after that.
It was an opportunity to lean down the RAF to focus on specific tasks.
Take joint helicopter command for example RAF transport helicopters used to support mainly Army ops with commando Helicopter force in there as well. With other units like TSW doing the same job as AAC. 🤦🏻♂️
We'll need to worry when our armed forces require no humans.
It’ll always need humans like if it gets too the point where u where fr goggles and a vr suit and control a robot with a gun , and I don’t see y it can’t happen
It's because of humans that we require armed forces.
Yes, well, I'm all for modernisation, but it seems this is a window through which to pour countless billions into "R&D" and not necessarily get much kit out at the other end. Great for the contractors, less so for UK defence.
Burn meeee!
I never understand the reticence to do 'R & D'. Failure is not always a bad thing because at least someone tried. And without R & D nothing new ever happens. We produced a vaccine in record time because the Government invested in R & D which was by no means certain. They risked failure but produced a miracle.
@@1chish I wholeheartedly agree.
The RAF have done a stellar job, but this change has really been needed.
It's great to see that the UK will probably not be left behind, and if we do end up so, then at least we will have tried.
The uk is now totally reliant on the USA. British military and Air Force could not go to war without USA
The RAF is a shell of what it used to be...
Yes yes we are always in a 'new world with unpredictable threats.' Always the same line from these high hats.
Annoyed me when one of the questions was 'the future of the RAF', but footage was shown of a Hercules, which are to be retired as part of the plan!
I can't help feeling that is a mistake, the A400 seems a bit big for some roles.
I would love to know what the pilots think, especially those involved in covert insertion etc.
@@bobthebomb1596 typical fashion they will get rid and then realise when it is too late...
They just bought new j models . The A400 are not doing well yet as they are still not upto 70% availability so to fulfill the NATO requirement the C130j was purchased, the j models is quite good and once the A400 get the issues sorted there is a good resale value in C130s.
@@bthestigman9667 I am only responding to suggestions that the UK is about to take the C130 out of service and rely on a mix of C17 and A400 aircraft.
@@bobthebomb1596 It's a whole other system to support though, for advantages in only a few areas (and your looking at what, a bit better fuel efficiency for most of those?). Not mention the design is very old now, even with upgrades.
48 F-35? That's barely enough for one carrier.
they always say that. It's changing, it's unstable. Human history is unstable... What's new?
What happens to defence spending when the country goes bust over the virus?
Typhoons don't have AESA radar?! Yeah it's time to catch up, UK
just more cuts to numbers
Not in the RAF or Navy. And some 4,000 in the Army which hasn't got to the propose establishment of 82,000 and is currently 76,500.
@@1chish Hammond chopped 4,200 Armed Forces ...
But folk forget. Fallon chopped more, but folk forget.
Williamson cut £9bn and 1,000 Marines, but folk forget.
Mordaunt kicked up a fuss, so Boris chopped her.
Now Wallace is chopping at the tree again ...
@@notrut And Wallace got £16.5 Bn extra for the MoD budget. You forgot that part. But thats OK when you have preset your thinking.
@@euanbell912 People will always include 2010 when fabricating the idea that "the conservatives have been cutting". You have (possibly deliberately) forgotten the fiscal reality of what the Coalition was having to do to salvage the economy from Labour's 2009 disaster which produced a £145 Bn annual deficit in 2010/11. Of course you say 'Conservatives' as it fits your bias when it was not. It was a Coalition. They had to try and convince the money markets that we were a valid lending prospect and to do that meant difficult choices. Remember when Labour destroyed the CVA-01 carrier, P1154 and TSR-2 in the '66 because they dug a huge economic hole? Well this time it was the coalition having to do the necessary cuts from the same cause. 2010 was by no means a normal SDSR and its wrong to include it.
SDSR2015 was a holding exercise as F-35 started to come good and the carriers were then a reality. The government committed to increase defence spending by 0.5% above inflation every year until 2021 (and therefore negating your comment). This meant the Defence budget would increase by nearly £5bn to £39.7bn in 2020/21. At the time the UK had the 2nd largest budget in NATO, the largest in the EU, and the fifth largest in the world.
Of course that has now been massively increased again.
So sorry but the Conservatives have not by any stretch been cutting the defence budget as they increased spending in the two SDSRs they have produced (2015 and 2021).
@@euanbell912 I see you just ignore detailed facts and keep repeating the same nonsense. Whatever....
Labour was in power for 13 years. It inherited a balanced economy from the Tories and produced a fiscal surplus by following Tory spending plans for 3 years. Then Brown went on his spending binge and borrowed like there was no tomorrow every year for another 9 years. Which meant when the crisis hit he had nowhere to turn. He was also guilty of splitting regulation of banks etc into 3 bodies none of whom knew what the others were doing and SURPRISE! The Banks made mistakes and no one knew.
Sorry but Labour was in power. The buck stops right there. THEY left an annual deficit of £145 Bn not the man in the moon.
I showed you quite clearly that neither in 2015 or in 2021 were defence budgets cut. THERE WERE ONLY TWO! So stop playing the 'real terms' game. its not real fact.
Welcome to the beginnings of Skynet.
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i have concerns about the f35 as a very capable state of the art platform will the running costs be sustainable in the future as government's change there minds form one day to the next . looking forward to seeing tempest and loyal wingman in service in the future
Yes I think the US Air Force is still using far more F-15 and F-16 fighters over the F-35 for this reason.
Yet the dumbasses like Boris Johnson think otherwise. The Harrier was my favourite fighter.
British RAF could do with a few Stealth bombers too and AC-130Js
Ha, they didn't say if the change was going to be good or bad.... Believe me it's only going to get WORSE!
It is a shame UK doesn't build aircraft, nuclear or helicopters by itself. France gets my respect in this respect. It doesn't rely on US.
the F-35 is a lemon
The F-35B can not return to a carrier with it's munitions still on board; it's to heavy to hover. The British carriers were not equipped with arrester gear as it was thought the F-35B could land while still carrying munitions. Last minute modifications were made to the fight decks to include a strip of heat resistant material all the way to the stern. The aircraft were testing roll on landings using the aircraft's brakes in order to increase the landing weight. The F-35B is just too heavy or under-powered . All three models don't carry enough ordinance to be effective in the pure strike capacity unless you give up stealth. In that case, the upgraded F-15s, F-16s, F-18s. Typhoons, etc. are a better value. It's a multi-role aircraft, without a role. Even it's stealth technology could be / has been defeated by a lowly Bosnian missile tech.
The f35b isn’t a bomber, with its terrible flight envelope isn’t a fighter either. Worst of all with its £170m price tag it’s turned into the worst military hardware purchase ever. Don’t expect the MOD to purchase more than the 50, enough to equip the two carriers.
While all this technology is on the face of it an answer to everyone's new age military capabilities it needs to be reliable. There is little use in a modern weapon if it goes U/S on a constant basis. With time the faults can be ironed out but the more complex the weapon the .more time needed.
Ex RAF Aerial Photographer who served with 111 Lightning Squadron in Cyprus (1972) on detachment from RAF Wattisham who normally worked in JARIC, I was amazed at how close to the wire aircraft back then, were pretty much flying death traps, which due to the demands jets impose on electrics and mechanics had to 'patched' up every night back in the hanger. As best I can tell the factual functionality and reliability of our fighting aircraft, not much has changed apparently, in fact I would say is even worse due to the complexity of digital systems now in our jets. Like wise later in life I was an IT Microsoft Trainer and in truth found even after 40 years of updates and new systems coming in, so much of Labs my students had to follow, often SQL, Exchange, NT4, IIS etc simply did not work ie reboot it !
I may be wrong but I believe that when that senior officer states that 70% of RAF aircraft will not be manned, it has nothing to do with improved functionality but increase complexity as people find with every Microsoft release more goes wrong and that would mean more casualties and deaths of our air crew.
How many Tempests and how many drones will we have?
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@@paulmcgee1867 Do not be silly, that would be far to expensive. We here at the MOD believe the budget could better handle around -300 of them.
@@spamuraigranatabru1149 I think he missed a decimal out that's all. :)
@@Phil_AKA_ThundyUK No no, we cannot afford any spare parts to go with them, if they break they are broken for good.
We either go big with Tempest or don't go at all and buy detuned Yank 6th gen!!! Built around pilot/ai interface, pilot command override if required ai does all the rest under pilot control, ai standalone with hardline only updates.....and control over 3 loyal wingman drones, with offensive/defencesive weapon systems. Airframe designed for min10g best gsuit and fitness so if really really nessesary ai can push just beyond blackout if defending itself and ultimately the pilot! 6th gen airwarfare just got sci-fi!!!! Or has it, look at the technologies of today, the emphasise on R and D and not just by us.....and you tell me this isn't here before 2030 give or take a year or 2.
The level of ai will be the key, but most flight systems have been evolving to fibre/fly by wire, so if ai had a level of data from different sensors around the aircraft then shared that info with pilot who could then respond with commands to the ai to control the aircraft accordingly and due to quantum (yes we get here ai is next!!) processing ability the whole scenario, pilot reaction limited (no bad thing keeps killing personal and therefore responsible for) to chain of command. Thier thoughts might be to go full ai! But that would mean either risking remote hack, and because of the complex nature of the CPU, even a wee pebble could cause catastrophic events, or simple put trust in an autonomous system to fend for itself.
Think we might need another generation of "The Right Stuff" and if they are test flying these machines they deserve the swagger!!! Lol. less F35 to order, our allies use F35 too, hence always be enough to fill carriers, we are not likely to go to war by ourselves really are we? F35 restricted ordnance and airframe but great sensors etc, good starting platform for syncing loyal wingman etc, and upgrades it to full scale bad ass, at least for bit! Lol. In the mean time good sensor platform for say a F15ex which can carry a few more things of destruction, flying cold and out of the way a bit! Low and tight, set circuit or just in the clouds! Smarter men than me know what thier doing and I'm no pilot.
That's why as an armchair warrior and reader of books I'm just sitting back and enjoying this evolution happen right in front of my eyes. Across a number or countries and armed forces.
And as for numbers, "it's not the size of the man in the fight, but the size of the fight in the man" as long as ya are able to take a hit! Lol. Life lesson that one!!
The only tangible restrictions to future air power are the limitations of the human body. Pilotless combat aircraft, of all variants, is the future.
The UK make a great ally to the US
Sounds like BAe have done a great job with their sales pitch. Pipe dreaming of 'future capability', while we lag behind and are overstretched right now, and have been for decades. Think a reality check is in order
only 6bil for the tempest? Seems insanely cheap.
6bn is general R+D not Tempest which is about 2bn. But that's only til about 2025, which should get us to the prototype.
It’s one of those things that as a civilian I just have to put my trust in these people that what they’re doing is the right thing for all of us now and in the future
Speak for yourself!
That’s the dumbest thing i’ll probably read for the rest of my life.
I love a f35
So they will be subcontracting aeroflot for everything but drones then.
The RAF will see little of the F35,s as the navy will always have first shout for limited number of airframes. Don’t expect many more to be purchased despite what the government say. Also, I suggest the tempest will never get off the ground once the real costs are realised.The navy has done relatively well out of this review.
Well thats odd. 1SL was just saying this week that F-35 orders will go well beyond the current 48 up to 80. 138 was never going to be operating at one time as it was an all life number over 40+ years. And I will take his word rather than that of an armchair Admiral.
Squadrons like 617 and the next FAA Squadron are joint squadrons and operate wherever they are tasked to operate. Just like Harriers were.
Not sure why people like you feel its really clever to paint an inaccurate and negative picture.
@@1chish ...because this armchair admiral holds a differing opinion to another armchair admiral. Get over yourself and stop being so self righteous. It’s an open forum so people can comment, even if you didn’t like it.
@@garethmitchell8140 Did I deny you your right to voice an opinion? No I did not. So YOU get over yourself. I made a detailed reply about your inaccuracies quoting a senior navy source who happens to be a REAL Admiral (hence the my 'armchair' alliteration!). Sorry if this upset you. Or maybe I am not.
I was never an Admiral armchair or otherwise but I did serve 15 years in the RAF on Harriers and Fat Alberts and went to war. Only made Flight. My bad.
Tories are cutting 138 F35s down to a wholly insufficient 48 to fund development of Tempest, a plane that doesn’t exist. 138 F35s will not be bought
No they are not 🤦🏻♂️
For the Conservative government, ‘change’ and ‘review’ means cuts. The government talks about ‘increased deployability’ and then retires Hercules
Why would we keep the herc now that we have the atlas, it’s not being cut is has already been replaced
You know it's a budget increase?
@@TheDrummingWarrior because we're not gonna have as many? because the Atlas is bigger, not much faster and isn't as versatile? The Atlas is a fine aircraft but there's NOTHING WRONG with the Hercules fleet
@Brady Sylvester so you think a few meters extra on an aircraft will give it away? Not the 4 huge noisy engines that both aircraft have and yet still do the job fine?
The Hercules has been around since the 1950s. It's at the end of It's capacity for development and there are better platforms available now. A400 is a good example.
Dale Brown, new this change would be upon us by 2020. We evolve... ... Somerset out loud
All our UK armed forces should consume far more of the GDP than is the plan. The reduction of the Army, Personnel and Tanks, is a DISGRACE to our Country
"Loyal Wingman" is a cheesy name. I would have called it the "Remora" after the fish that swim about sharks protecting them from pests and parasites.
A human pilot will always beat a robot no matter what anyone says
Typhoon would out do any aircraft
Can someone explain how getting rid of Pumas and Chinooks is aligned with the MoD’s new plan of the armed forces being more mobile and more expeditionary focused?
It's easy, the troops will have to walk everywhere.
And walking is clearly more 'mobile' than flying.
Puma is being replaced with the new MLH, and the oldest Chinook airframes are being retired to be replaced by new ones.
If Bravo November is getting retired it needs to be in either the RAF Museum or my back garden!
I've no idea why we're going down the route of developing a new MLH, the Merlin is a cracking platform, just procure more of them.
I wondered that too, Chinook replacements are fine but sometimes the Chinook is way to large and noisy for lower level or covert ops, I hope they get an equivalent to the Puma etc and what are they going to train on if no Griffins,
Send this to the snp.
Bad news for Pilots then.
So the RAF Regt are to become the 3rd special forces unit
Personally I’m wondering what will happen with them, as 2 Squadron, the regiments para equivalents and SFSG contributions have lost there jumping status q as
@@callumrae5769 - no they haven't. 2 Sqn are still Para a roled unit.
@@JammyDodger45 oh, my stepdad is ex 2 squadron and he said they had/were
@@callumrae5769 - nope, they supply the RAF contingent to SFSG, that unit requires all personnel to be Para qualified.
They apparently took over the role of CSAR and aircrew rescue already from the SAS reserve and are part of SFSG already so it would seem at least some of them already are
Only 48 F35’s on order, we need more now not in decades to be able to fill our aircraft carriers without having to rely on our allies.
I think the RAF and RN has more than enough to fill the HMS QE. The allies are there on her maiden voyage to prove a point in interoperability and possibly training for the RAF/RN from the more experienced USMC.
Cant wait for 6th generation aircraft
Bang goes your career if you want to be a fighter jock
Notice that every single industry is championing the notion of less human and more automation?
Seriously think about this, what are we going to do when there are literally no jobs to do?
I think we need to stop looking at this as a positive and acknowledge it's sinister undertones.
Yes so why import more unemployable people to put on the dole, when your own will be unemployed already. Insanity rules in all governments. preparing for weird war externally while having the enemy in thousands amongst us
because the whole world is changing its military
I dont think you used the Buzz words "game changing" enough. Please emphasize how your new game changer changes the game with your new game changing technologies.
Why is the RAF disappearing? more like
Are you still a pilot if you never set foot in a cockpit?
Hmmm good question
“In terms count” anyone?
By 2040, 80% of RAF crafts will not need a human to pilot them, the UK’s population is growing, even though they might be looked at as mundane tasks, what jobs will all those humans take up, if most of the actual flying gigs are outsourced to AI?
Humans make mistakes, humans get need rest, humans feel stress. This is something a machine is not effected by.
To be honest the percentage of he UK population who are RAF pilots is negligible. Something like 1830 out of a population of 65 million. This is 0.002%
So it would make hardly any difference to employment stats.
U lot starting to change now seriously am shocked Pakistan air fore already upgraded so many things
When are you going to phase out the Sopwith camels and move on to mono planes?
We'll see when we are locked in dogfights with you.
The RAF for the Playstation generation, with all the unmanned aircraft they plan.
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Rise of the machines
Flippin skynet !!
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Mechanical radar to aesa radar ....are we that far behind ..the Russians are further ahead
No, just some of the Typhoons (earlier models). We do have a few different "Tranche" variants of the typhoon in operation.
Radar 2 is looking at significant abilities beyond a basic AESA so it won't just be a catch up but also a push forward.
Only a few Russian fighters have AESA, not there whole fleet.
They generally aren't actually, despite their boasting.
All the Rafale trolls can then shut up as Typhoon will be far better.
Don't believe the spiel!
Sounds good to me, this jet gives me the hawker hurricane vibes...
Nice to see the entire F-35 fleet flying together in this video.
Why not buy the f-22 oh sorry cause the US wont let us buy it cause it's to good for the uk which makes you think how good is the f-35b
the f-35 was a joint development project from the start unlike the f-22
@@MrWassup45 yes makes sense with HMS queen Elizabeth !!! BUT still the US never sold the f-22 to any other country Why ?
@@jameshines4012 the program also got axed really early infavor of the f35 the US itself only has 168 on inventory no new f22s are being produced to sell
@@MrWassup45 Yeah I know thanks its a shame cause it's a great plane.
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And so what would you do? Not furlough millions of people and bail out thousands of businesses during a Pandemic?
Here's a great idea lets not invest in vaccine research and not buy vaccines either. That will get us more tanks .....
@@1chish either way we won't be getting more tanks, we'll just be losing the ones we have 😑 they're one of the things in the Army listed as being given the chop. Most sensible decision ever right there huh 🙄 and THE VERY MOMENT the last Challenger 2 is given the boot, that's when there'll be a horde of enemy armour to deal with. Stupid penny-pinching b*stards
@@1chish What would I do? Stop tax evasion.
@@1IbramGaunt Oh dear more ignorance. Have you actually read the White Paper?
We will be getting new Challenger 3 upgraded tanks and the rest will remain in warm storage. So no nett reduction in numbers just an added increase in capability.
We are an island. We have not been invaded since 1066. Even Hitler failed. So please inform us which country will attack the UK with MBTs. Just pick one.
@@notmenotme614 Ah right. just like that eh? Magic. And like HMRC are NOT stopping tax evasion?
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
Well if you hang out in those areas you must be that type of person. The UK like anywhere else in the world has it's shittier places. Oh and I don't think a decline has ruined our skies. They were never that nice you know.
Well this video is a bit dated now this awful Tory government has cut the forces to its core
We hear how changes will effect size and role of army and Royal Marines but how will these changes effect the RAF Regiment- I actual think the RAFR, RM, and regular army should be somehow combined and then section off again, also RAF, RN, and army flying units should combine and section off again, all making a (combined) British Armed Forces entity- one uniform, one rank system, one command staff. The SAS & SBS should also be under the one force.
Different military specialities need officers and men experienced in those specialities, one size fitting all does not work in such situations. The one uniform concept was tried by Canada, it reverted to the older British system. One rank system would also be difficult considering the equivalency with NATO forces ranks within their respective arms of service not to mention trying to get a Corporal of Horse (Sergeant) to command a naval vessel or helicopter. I would like to see one change though....the cessation of calling Lieu tenants as Lefftenant, which is extremely bad English or should it be French. The French say Mon Dieu MONN DEW not MONN DEFF although they are often quite deaf to common sense. SAS and SBS and SRR with SFSG are already under one command
Over confidence in unproven hi tech future ( and someone has to pay for BoJo the buffoon’s second runaround aircraft for his ego and the RN’s expansion )
The TSR-2 was going to be the cutting edge and future of the RAF, although it looked good, the cost killed it off - the same repeats its self, promised X airframes get Y airframes as the cost rockets out of control, seen it many many times in the past.
Poor decision making due to continued cuts are historic, look at the Harriers- sold to the USMC when we have two white elephant aircraft carriers reliant on US aircraft to fully complement them.
The governments record on cronyism also does not give credibility to the promises - the promised UK manufactured Tank or Airframe will end up made in some third world country by child labour by a firm used to making biros owned by a Tory party donor.
The reliance on pilotless drones is both blinkered and the R&D still relatively very new. The over reliance on hi tech also sees the days not in service increase as when a fuse blows the whole system goes down - something learned in the Gulf War the expectations is some systems failed when operational reliability dropped to 60-70%, the most infamous being the SA80 which constantly failed, which only in recent years with upgrades has become reliable.
The final point is can anyone believe anything that a proven lying politician like BoJo tells them ? He makes second hand car salesmen look good.
More BS from the heads, spouting nonsense. Sure technology moves on, especially in the aerospace sector. But quantity has a quality all of its own. No matter how good, an aircraft can only be in 1 place at a time.
That is true, however as the F22 has proven time and time again, one state of the art fighter can easily outmatch several lower tier assets.
I get your point, but put it this way, 20 Hawker jets or one F35 ... who is going to win?
I fully agree with you btw, we need far more numbers, but at least the UK posses true quality
@@Andrew-is7rs With such low number of aircraft - there is no depth in fighting strength. Combat loses will still occur even with the best aircraft. So glad my time in the RAF has finished
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As i said, i agree with you. However i would rather see 2 sqds on each QE than none at all like we had when Ark was scrapped.
The UK has a superior AF than France for example (in many peoples opinion) and with a 5th gen in service which they missed out on for political reasons and a 6th gen further along than they have, and with two carriers the UK can field one at all times. Plus the UK has more and better located strategic air/naval bases globally than they do too, hence why the UK can continuously combat ISIS etc from Akratori.
But i do agree with what you say
And that's what the UAVs and drones will offer.
One is none, two is one, totally agree, you cannot replace numbers, when numbers can mean the lives of the people on the ground. Personally I cannot see why we want to deploy troops to Mozambique and Somalia
"Why is the RAF changing"?
Lack of funding and spineless yes men in charge who dont stand upto politicans