Thursday, April 14, 2011

Why Buy The Jets When You Will Not Have The Pilots To Fly Them?



RAF Training Cuts Leave Typhoons Idle -- The Telegraph

The Royal Air Force's most advanced warplanes have been unable to drop bombs on Libyan targets because defence spending cuts mean that pilots are not fully trained, The Telegraph can disclose.

The Ministry of Defence announced last week that RAF Typhoons would drop bombs on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's tanks and other ground targets.

But so far this has not happened, because the planes' pilots are not considered to be properly trained in ground attacks.

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My Comment: No planning. No foresight. No common sense. No Leadership. A perfect description of what the MoD and their political masters have done to Britain's Royal air force.

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