“We don’t get what we need from Hawk today,” says the Chief of the Air
Staff
Britain’s Chief of the Air Staff has criticised the service’s Hawk T.Mk
2 advanced jet trainer, and said that: “I would like to replace Hawk T2 as soon
as we can.”
Jon Lake
November 27, 2024
Britain’s Chief of
the Air Staff has criticised the service’s Hawk T.Mk 2 advanced jet trainer,
and said that: “I would like to replace Hawk T2 as soon as we can.”
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief
Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, used the annual CAS lecture to the Freeman Air
and Space Power Institute at Kings College to highlight probems with the RAF’s
Hawk T.Mk 2 advanced jet trainer, and expressed his desire to replace it as
soon as possible.
“I worry about the lead in fast jet training which is done by the Hawk. That has a really important role to play in our exports. It’s the pinnacle of our flying training, but we don’t get what we need from Hawk today, we are getting half of what we should get out of it. We have problems with engines and support, and speaking frankly, I would like to replace Hawk T2 as soon as we can, in order to deliver a more relevent more reliable training capacity so I don’t have to send pilots overseas. It would also give us the capacity to train overseas pilots here as that is such an important integral part of what we do.”
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