I lavori aumentano mentre il Regno Unito si preparava per costruire aerei militari per gli Stati Uniti per la prima volta in oltre cinquant’anni
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jobs-boost-as-uk-set-to-build-military-aircraft-for-united-states-for-first-time-in-over-fifty-years
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>It will see two existing Boeing 737 passenger aircraft significantly overhauled and upgraded to create two highly advanced prototype early-warning surveillance aircraft. The contract delivers an additional over £36M to the UK economy.
Sounds like a decent deal to me.
I very much hope this pushes the Gov to aquire the 2 RAF E-7s we cut. The SDR recommended getting them, and it’s such a perfect opportunity.
The E-7 is the principle AWACS asset NATO fields, having 5 in RAF service is such a boost to UK and NATO capabilities over the 3 we will be getting now.
Make sure you guys get paid up front. This orange asshole has a history of not paying his bills.
>It will see two existing Boeing 737 passenger aircraft significantly overhauled and upgraded to create two highly advanced prototype early-warning surveillance aircraft. The contract delivers an additional over £36M to the UK economy.
Wasn’t this literally one of the reason that the program was even more of a mess for UK ? If i remember well they did the same thing instead of going for a new at the start and realized that the aircraft did not had proper maintenance and it slowed down everything…
Otherwise what do they mean by the fact that those would be prototype ?
They should put kill switches in the planes
Giving bjs to dumpf worked!!
Good news, more of this sort of thing would be very nice.
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This is a bit more complicated than the article would lead you to believe. The US has operated an aircraft called the E-3 for decades, but it’s aging out hard. What exactly will replace it is up in the air. There seems to be an internal argument in the USAF about what comes next.
Meanwhile… the E-7 was initially proposed for Australia as a new, at-least-close-to-state-of-the-art-if-not-state-of-the-art AWAC/battlefield management platform back in ~2006. The E-7 also has other customers (it’s near 20 years old now!) including the UK, Turkey, and South Korea. The US itself has *not* committed to the program, and this purchase actually looks like a “let’s dip a toe in and see how we like it”. 2 aircraft isn’t close to the USAF need, so prototype is likely the best description from a USAF point of view. They’re gonna see if they like it. Alternatively, they have some special use idea that 2 aircraft would be sufficient for.
There are alternate space-based platforms apparently, but getting info about that is tough. The US DoD is being very vague about exactly what it plans to do and what exactly it has in the sky at the moment. An E-7 purchase package had been proposed, but then deleted from the budget (2026). Reasoning was “it’s not good enough”. No explicit alternative named, just a general program (AMTI).
In any case, to clarify, this is the UK’s Birmingham plant modifying two brand new 737s to some E-7ish standard. It’s listed as E-7A, sooo, not sure what exactly that means, difference wise. The aircraft currently seem destined for USAF service.
£36m securing 190 jobs across UK. Do they mean for a few months? Hardly securing.