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RAF has not pilots: fewer Typhoon for the United Kingdom

London, UK - This would be the hypothesis recently put forward by Ministry of Defence to start a serious operative problem

Great Britain scheduled the purchase of a total amount of 232 Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon multirole medium-light fighters, but Ministry of Defence would not prove willing to consider such programme as immune to important changes producing a lowering of the orders. It seems in fact that Royal Air Force has not a sufficient number of pilots to be destinated to all the combat airplanes and this problem...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 103678
Rome, Italy, 09/20/2004 14:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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