UK RAF Dismantles Four Typhoons To Serve Others In Fleet

The UK’s Royal Air Force has dismantled four Typhoon fighter jets so as to use their spare parts to ensure optimum aircraft availability.

The spare parts will be moved between aircraft within the RAF typhoon fleet.

“It is routine practice to move parts between aircraft within the RAF Typhoon fleet to ensure optimum aircraft availability. Four Typhoon aircraft held in the sustainment fleet are currently being used as donor aircraft and consequently are unable to fly,” Defence Minister Philip Dunne was quoted as saying by Mirror news daily.

Four jets, costing £125 million each, are being cannibalised to cover a desperate shortage of key kit, the news daily reported Sunday.

The revelation comes as six Typhoons were sent to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus to boost the UK mission against Islamic State in Syria. They are set to pound targets in Iraq and Syria after MPs gave the green light to extending military action.