Italy wants to sell Typhoons

[james84]

From http://www.airnewsinternational.it/
My translation
ROME - Italian AF is suffering from budget cuts especially on training and maintenance resources, which will use 12.3% of the 14,28 bln. € assigned to the armed forces. In order to reduce the logistics and make more money the Air Force has sold 20 Typhoons from the first block, hoping to be able to sell them as quality second hand aircraft to Romania (which will be buyng F-16s) or other allied countres. Air forces of the future will be standardized on only two aircrafts, Typhoons and Lightning II, but at the moment there are also Tornados (80 vehicles received an mid-life update) and 55 AMX fighters updated to the Acol standard, four of which are based at Herat, Afghanistan. About 50 further non-updated AMXs may be purchased by the US which would give them to the Afghan AF, but this has yet to be confirmed.

[bismarck]

BLEAH!!!

[MIKE JG]

Wonder if it's buy one, get a second for half off??

[tango234]

I hate budget cuts so much...but at least this time it isn't the RAF...

[CelticWarrior]

I hate budget cuts so much...but at least this time it isn't the RAF...

You think so, huh? So you didn't see the article in the Sunday Times speculating that HM Forces may well be cut down to two, and guess which one's for the chop?

[tango234]

You think so, huh? So you didn't see the article in the Sunday Times speculating that HM Forces may well be cut down to two, and guess which one's for the chop?

Both the conservatives and labour have stated that no branch of the UK armed forces (RN, Army or RAF) will be disbanded. Not sure if that seems ambiguous. I have seen it mooted however, that the RN will get the fast jets and the RAF will focus on transport.

[james84]

In the meantime, the first 767-200TT (former reg. N764TT) has been flown to Italy!

[james84]

Here are the shots...
http://www.aviazionecivile.com/vb/showt ... p?t=106625