CMMA - replacing the CP140 Aurora

[calculus]

If it wasn’t the old analogue first version of the MX-20, I’d agree.

Ah crap! There goes that theory. Still hope I'm right, as I'm sure everyone else on this forum does. We should probably have even more than 16, realistically. Awful big country to cover....

 

[Halifax Tar]

I hate people who use arbitrary percentages for spares.

The operational community need input; for some systems, sparing levels need to be over 100% due to criticality and lead times; other items can be all but ignored due to simplicity or ubiquity.

Of course, this assumes properly staffed support organizations to lifecycle manage that materiel so you don't end up with CF5 conformal tanks and Iltis spares filling warehouses into the 2020s.

MMTs everywhere: