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Having outsourced flying

training over the past ten years,

the UK MOD is now preparing

for the next challenge. A new

element of the Military Flying

Training System is taking shape

• the Air Support to Defence
  Operational Training (ASDOT)
  contract – as Alan Warnes
  reports.
  the Cobham Falcon 20s and RN
  Hawks will step aside for the new
  ASDOT system on December
  31, 2019, the No 100 Squadron
  Hawks will soldier on until 2027.
  An MOD spokesperson told
  AFM: “ASDOT will seek to address
  the complex range of airborne
  threats posed by the UK’s
  potential adversaries. It is more
  than a Red Air provision
  as it will also need
  to provide Blue
  capabilities for
  Aerospace

Battle Manager/Fighter

Controller and JTAC training,

together with a range of EW and

threat simulation capabilities for

training and operational

assurance

activities.

ASDOT is set to serve the UK Armed Forces’

evolving live-fl y, tactical training needs well into

the mid-2030s. In July 2016 QinetiQ, Thales and

Textron AirLand announced their collaboration for

the ASDOT bidding. Textron AirLand will off er its

Scorpion jet, and other platforms. Jamie Hunter

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