Lo mas seguro es que confien plenamente en la capacidad para mantener Mount Pleasant activo, asi como que aun sin Harriers su flota conserva capacidad de ataque terrestre en forma de Tomahawks lanzados por SSNs
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EL GOBIERNO BRITANICO CONSIDERA LA VENTA DE AVIONES DE AVIONES DE COMBATE
Gran Bretaña está considerando vender una flota de aviones de combate, dijo el lunes un ministro del gobierno. En una entrevista con The Financial Times, el ministro para el equipamiento de la defensa, Peter Luff dijo que algunos de los aviones podrían venderse dado que el gobierno recientemente ha recortado los gastos para defensa, incluyendo el avión de reconocimiento Nimrod MRA4, que encontraría un hogar en el exterior. La India es el comprador más probable del Harrier, según la prensa, mientras que los Estados Unidos podrían comprar los aviones para suplir su flota usada por la infantería de marina. El mes pasado, el primer ministro David Cameron precisó las conclusiones de la primera revisión de sus fuerzas armadas que Gran Bretaña ha realizado desde 1988, detallando cortar el presupuesto de la defensa, la mano de obra, equipamiento y capacidad estratégica. Las obligaciones contractuales significaron que el gobierno tuvo que conservar dos portaaviones previamente pedidos, aunque Gran Bretaña no tendrá aviones de combate para equiparlos por unos 10 años. Luff dijo que podría ser un buen mercado de ultramar, particularmente para el Harrier, pero que él no deseaba especular sobre el mercado.
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Gran Bretaña está considerando vender una flota de aviones de combate, dijo el lunes un ministro del gobierno. En una entrevista con The Financial Times, el ministro para el equipamiento de la defensa, Peter Luff dijo que algunos de los aviones podrían venderse dado que el gobierno recientemente ha recortado los gastos para defensa, incluyendo el avión de reconocimiento Nimrod MRA4, que encontraría un hogar en el exterior. La India es el comprador más probable del Harrier, según la prensa, mientras que los Estados Unidos podrían comprar los aviones para suplir su flota usada por la infantería de marina. El mes pasado, el primer ministro David Cameron precisó las conclusiones de la primera revisión de sus fuerzas armadas que Gran Bretaña ha realizado desde 1988, detallando cortar el presupuesto de la defensa, la mano de obra, equipamiento y capacidad estratégica. Las obligaciones contractuales significaron que el gobierno tuvo que conservar dos portaaviones previamente pedidos, aunque Gran Bretaña no tendrá aviones de combate para equiparlos por unos 10 años. Luff dijo que podría ser un buen mercado de ultramar, particularmente para el Harrier, pero que él no deseaba especular sobre el mercado.
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Aviones Harrier del Reino Unido realizan último vuelo operacional
By Craig Hoyle
Operations with the UK’s BAE Systems Harrier GR9/9A ground-attack aircraft will come to an end today, with the nation’s Joint Force Harrier organisation to perform a final series of sorties from the Royal Air Force’s Cottesmore base in Rutland.
The farewell is to involve a 16-aircraft formation which will perform flypasts at the RAF’s facilities at Wyton, Cranwell, Waddington, Scampton and Coningsby and also over Stamford, Lincoln and Oakham before returning to land at Cottesmore. The aircraft should take off from around 13:15 local time and land around 90min later, the Ministry of Defence says.
In total, 13 single-seat aircraft and three two-seat trainers were involved in rehearsal flights conducted earlier this week.
One of the aircraft has been painted in a retrospective colour scheme previously used with early RAF versions of the Harrier, as shown in this image from Aviacom photographer Jamie Hunter. Three others are shown with their tail fins painted to mark their operation by the RAF’s 1 and 4 squadrons, and by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm’s 800 NAS.
Each of the units operated Harrier GR7A/9As from Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan in support of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force over an almost five-year period ending in mid-2009. The type was replaced in theatre by the RAF’s Panavia Tornado GR4 strike aircraft after more than 8,500 sorties and 22,000 flight hours.
Operations with the UK’s Harriers were due to have continued until at least 2018, when it was to have transitioned to Lockheed Martin’s short take-off and vertical landing F-35B. However, the nation’s coalition government in late October announced a decision to retire the current type by 31 March 2011, and to shift the UK’s planned production commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter programme to the F-35C carrier variant.
The UK had already reduced the size of its Harrier ground-attack fleet over the last several years, but Flightglobal’s MiliCAS database says the type’s early retirement still leaves around 52 aircraft as surplus to requirements. This includes 28 recently upgraded GR9s and 16 GR9As – the latter version is powered by Rolls-Royce’s uprated Pegasus 107 engine – plus eight T10/12/12A two-seat trainers.
One of the jet age’s most iconic designs, the Harrier was first flown in prototype form in 1960, as the Hawker Siddeley P1127. The UK’s “Jump Jet” achieved legendary status with its pivotal role during the 1982 Malvinas War, when the RN’s newly-fielded Sea Harriers shot down numerous Argentine air force aircraft.
The then-British Aerospace also collaborated with McDonnell Douglas to develop the AV-8B Harrier II. MiliCAS says more than 140 of these remain in service with the US Marine Corps, with the Italian and Spanish navies also operating the type. The Indian navy also flies eight Sea Harrier FRS51 fighters and three trainers.
Today’s event in the UK marks the nation’s second Harrier retirement in less than five years, with the Ministry of Defence having retired the RN’s last Sea Harrier FA2s in March 2006.
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By Craig Hoyle
Operations with the UK’s BAE Systems Harrier GR9/9A ground-attack aircraft will come to an end today, with the nation’s Joint Force Harrier organisation to perform a final series of sorties from the Royal Air Force’s Cottesmore base in Rutland.
The farewell is to involve a 16-aircraft formation which will perform flypasts at the RAF’s facilities at Wyton, Cranwell, Waddington, Scampton and Coningsby and also over Stamford, Lincoln and Oakham before returning to land at Cottesmore. The aircraft should take off from around 13:15 local time and land around 90min later, the Ministry of Defence says.
In total, 13 single-seat aircraft and three two-seat trainers were involved in rehearsal flights conducted earlier this week.
One of the aircraft has been painted in a retrospective colour scheme previously used with early RAF versions of the Harrier, as shown in this image from Aviacom photographer Jamie Hunter. Three others are shown with their tail fins painted to mark their operation by the RAF’s 1 and 4 squadrons, and by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm’s 800 NAS.
Each of the units operated Harrier GR7A/9As from Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan in support of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force over an almost five-year period ending in mid-2009. The type was replaced in theatre by the RAF’s Panavia Tornado GR4 strike aircraft after more than 8,500 sorties and 22,000 flight hours.
Operations with the UK’s Harriers were due to have continued until at least 2018, when it was to have transitioned to Lockheed Martin’s short take-off and vertical landing F-35B. However, the nation’s coalition government in late October announced a decision to retire the current type by 31 March 2011, and to shift the UK’s planned production commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter programme to the F-35C carrier variant.
The UK had already reduced the size of its Harrier ground-attack fleet over the last several years, but Flightglobal’s MiliCAS database says the type’s early retirement still leaves around 52 aircraft as surplus to requirements. This includes 28 recently upgraded GR9s and 16 GR9As – the latter version is powered by Rolls-Royce’s uprated Pegasus 107 engine – plus eight T10/12/12A two-seat trainers.
One of the jet age’s most iconic designs, the Harrier was first flown in prototype form in 1960, as the Hawker Siddeley P1127. The UK’s “Jump Jet” achieved legendary status with its pivotal role during the 1982 Malvinas War, when the RN’s newly-fielded Sea Harriers shot down numerous Argentine air force aircraft.
The then-British Aerospace also collaborated with McDonnell Douglas to develop the AV-8B Harrier II. MiliCAS says more than 140 of these remain in service with the US Marine Corps, with the Italian and Spanish navies also operating the type. The Indian navy also flies eight Sea Harrier FRS51 fighters and three trainers.
Today’s event in the UK marks the nation’s second Harrier retirement in less than five years, with the Ministry of Defence having retired the RN’s last Sea Harrier FA2s in March 2006.
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Tienen que tener horas remanentes, los almacenarán y saldrán algún día hacia algún pais o se reactivarán cuando la cosa mejore.
Yo voy a sonreir cuando sean hechos chatarra . . .
Saludos.
Adhiero...
Un hermoso avión sin dudas, que bueno que se van!!!
Yo voy a sonreir cuando sean hechos chatarra . . .
Saludos.
Estrictamente hablando, los que se usaron en el 82 YA son chatarra hace mucho..(algunos son parte de Range Rovers de principios de los 90)
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