C-27J Touted for UK

[P-3K]

Alenia Aermacchi, it appears, are offering the Spartan for UK Military use, ahead of the SDSR........

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... uk-416859/

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"filling the future airlift gap that will exist between the Airbus A400M tactical transport and Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter."

Is there such a gap in our inventory?

[EGDR]

There will be if all of the C-130Js are retired as planned in 2022. (there aren't many BAe 146s to go around, and I'm not sure how long they're planned to last for)

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Ah ok, thank you sir. I hadn't appreciated that was so far but so near.

[f106dart]

If the UK does get them I sure home there in service longer than the ones that the Air Nat Guard had.

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Ah, well that was all part of the knee jerk post-Cold War yet pre-ISIS era military reaction to a threat that could have been predicted!