"BAE Systems Hawk " Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Nov 2014 12:34 p.m. PST |
"The BAE Systems Hawk is a British single-engine, advanced jet trainer aircraft. It was first flown at Dunsfold, Surrey, in 1974 as the Hawker Siddeley Hawk, and subsequently produced by its successor companies, British Aerospace and BAE Systems, respectively. It has been used in a training capacity and as a low-cost combat aircraft.
Operators of the Hawk include the Royal Air Force (notably the Red Arrows display team) and a considerable number of foreign military operators. The Hawk is still in production in the UK and under licence in India by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with over 900 Hawks sold to 18 operators around the world…"
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| GarrisonMiniatures | 01 Nov 2014 1:06 p.m. PST |
The Red Arrows Hawks are nearing the end of their life and they're looking for a repLacement plane. It's causing a few problems in the UK… link |
| David Manley | 01 Nov 2014 3:53 p.m. PST |
Incredibly unlikely that the replacement will be anything other than more Hawks. |
| Lion in the Stars | 01 Nov 2014 6:41 p.m. PST |
Incredibly unlikely that the replacement will be anything other than more Hawks. Typhoons would make sense but probably cost too much for the Treasury to approve. After all, the USAF and USN teams both fly their regular fighters (F16s and F18s, respectively). |
 Doms Decals  | 02 Nov 2014 2:25 a.m. PST |
That's never been the case with the RAF though – in a time of tight budgets it would be a pretty nuts decision anyway, but the RAF display team's always used fast jet trainers, going right back to the Yellowjacks in the early '60s. |
| Lion in the Stars | 02 Nov 2014 11:26 a.m. PST |
@Dom: Did not know that, I thought the RAF display team got stuck with trainers due to Treasury, not a standard practice. What's the pricetag on a Gripen these days? Those would make pretty hot fast-jet "trainers"!  |
| Doms Decals | 02 Nov 2014 1:13 p.m. PST |
The original Yellowjacks team was formed unofficially by flying instructors using Gnats that had recently been adopted as fast jet trainers, so it's been their heritage from the start. A couple of years later they were "regularised", and became the Red Arrows, still in Gnats, which were replaced with Hawks about the same time as the trainer fleet was. On top of that, given the symbolism involved, it'd be a very questionable move to have them switch to non-British aircraft – as DM says, there's pretty much no way they'll end up in anything other than more modern Hawk models. |
| Deadone | 03 Nov 2014 6:34 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 03 Nov 2014 11:23 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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