Keeping our nation safe

matters to us

By working as part of the Whole Force team, our people stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the RAF to meet this shared mission, keeping Typhoon as the backbone of UK air defence.

 

24/7, 365 days a year, we are working together to ensure Typhoon is ready to respond to secure our skies and support the UK's international allies.

Every day our maintainers are focused on ensuring Typhoon aircraft can be on operations or carrying out training rather than being in the repair shop, giving the RAF the aircraft it needs, when it needs them and at a price it can afford.

We never stop looking for new ways to improve, leveraging our expertise, maximising our partnership and harnessing new technologies to ensure we maintain performance.

 

 

Our partnership with the RAF is underpinned by the Typhoon Total Availability Enterprise (TyTAN), an availability support programme to drive down the cost of supporting the fleet, which is a blueprint for the way we support our customers.

 

More than £500m of costs driven out of support have been re-invested in new capabilities for the jet whilst ensuring RAF pilots continue to fly tens of thousands of hours in support of operations and training.

 

But, our drive to deliver further savings does not stop, we continue to harness technologies to find new ways of working smarter to support our customer.

 

 

Ensuring Typhoon pilots have the skills they need to operate in an increasingly complex battlespace is a key part of our support to the frontline fleet.

 

Our people provide live and synthetic training to the RAF's Typhoon fleet from its main operating bases at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire and RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, including the delivery of ten new high-fidelity immersive simulators enabling pilots from different locations to fly virtual missions together.

 

These highly secure networked training environments will allow pilots to train and carry out complex combined training exercises using real world mission software and tactics, and provide the ability to 'plug into' other assets across air, land and sea.