RAF strips jets for spare parts: Typhoons torn up for Libya air fleet.

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RAF strips jets for spare parts: Typhoons torn up for Libya air fleet.

By Ian Drury

Last updated at 11:29 AM on 16th June 2011

The RAF is tearing apart state-of-the-art fighter jets for spare parts to keep warplanes flying over Libya.

Three Typhoons, costing £125million each, are being cannibalised at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to cover a desperate shortage of parts.

Eight Typhoons are taking part in bombing raids and enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya. The jets also patrol the Falkland Islands and provide the Quick Reaction Alert force protecting UK airspace.

Stripped for parts: A Typhoon lands at RAF Coningsby where the jets are due to be cannibalised in order to keep those flying in Libya and elsewhere in the air

But to save money, air chiefs did not order enough spare parts for the warplanes when they came into service two years ago.

This means three jets had to be grounded in March so RAF technicians could raid them to keep the maximum number of Typhoons in the air.


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[Safriz]

looks like David camerron.has bitten more than he could chew/ He was the one who initiated NATO attacks o/ Libya. Now he doesnt have money to provide RAF witn.spares. Same old pitical tussel between military and political leaders.

 

[Luftwaffe]

Those who don't know more then 3 Billion dollars of Libyan Govt and gadaffi are frozen the money could be channeled towards these smooth Operations in libya, that is non of the money went out of their pockets, Its libyan money being used against libya.

 

[nForce]

The British,it seems,have really lowered the military budget.All the better.I personally think that huge expenditures for military purpose are nothing but wastage of precious resources.