The
HARRIER will survive our deadline and beyond by a couple of years. The
A-10 will likely make it to about
2030, by now they all should've been "re-winged" a project started about 3 or 4 years ago.
But after my last post in this thread, I check "
my morning papers" and finally someone is confident enough to make a call on the
F-35B meeting
Full Operational Capability FOC standards, and no it's not the
CORPS!! The next will give it away only because I cited this issue in the last post,
BREXIT. Yesterdays vote was a disaster for the May government with a no confidence vote to be held later today on the current government.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887
These type of issues to this extent are never really a good thing for the military in general. But if this can be worked out by all parties under the current deadline of
29 March, just maybe, Britain by way of the
RN will be the
first country to declare their
F-35s(B) fully operation in
2021-2023. I bet the
CORPS &
NAVAIR will get off their "butts" and finally declare it before the Brits to save face.
We'll see even the CORPS had admitted some time back they might've "
pulled the trigger" a little soon in declaring
Initial Operational Capability IOC when they did. This should be an interesting year for these planes. So
FOC 2021-2023 for the
RN here's your stories...
https://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/tim...arrier-strike/
https://fightersweep.com/10815/uks-r...rder-of-f-35s/
Regards,
Pat
