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The parliamentary report said five Typhoon pilots had to be grounded temporarily because there were insufficient fully operational aircraft for them to log the required flying time. It noted that the shortages had also affected pilots' training last year, with only eight of the Royal Air Force's 48 Typhoon pilots qualified for ground attack operations - the role the plane is currently being used for in Libya.

But the RAF is currently having to 'cannibalize' aircraft for spare parts in a bid to keep the maximum number of Typhoons operational on any given day.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee scrutiny body said the Ministry of Defence had warned the problems were likely to continue until 2015 when it expects the supply of spares finally to have reached a "steady state".

"Problems with the availability of spare parts have meant that Typhoons are not flying as many hours as the department requires."
It said the supply chain for Typhoon spares was "complex and stretches across Europe".
However, the department admitted that the supplies process "had not been managed well enough or delivered all the required parts when needed."
The cost of the Typhoon project has soared since its inception due to bad planning and over-optimistic targets, Britain's public sector spending watchdog said last month.

“The MoD’s management of the contract to procure 232 Typhoon fighter aircraft has been little short of a disgrace,” he said in a statement. “The RAF will now end up with only 107 jets, less than half the number originally expected, while £3.5 billion has been added to the final bill by the MoD’s persistent over-optimism on costs. This extra £3.5 billion could have bought the RAF two squadrons of modern multi-role fighter aircraft off-the-shelf from the United States, including pilot training and support, and still left £1 billion in change.

The MoD also keeps flip-flopping over what it wants the Typhoon to do. It was originally designed to defeat Soviet aircraft, but when the MoD retired the Jaguar fighter-bomber early to save money, the RAF suddenly found itself short of ground attack aircraft. The MoD then spent £119 million giving Typhoons ground-attack capability, until the MoD decided to make further savings by retiring the Tornado F3s guarding the UK’s airspace. All the RAF’s Typhoons were then re-tasked to air defence again until a small number of ground-attack capable Typhoons were deployed to southern Italy for operations over Libya.

Pilou a écrit

…A propos des problèmes de pièces détachées pour les Typhoon britanniques…

d9pouces a écrit

Il faut vraiment qu'ils passent au Rafale, ça leur coûtera moins cher ?