It may not have been the spiciest of leaks — and no Discord servers or Russian disinformation were involved. But a leak of internal Royal Air Force documents to Sky News last year shed light on an ongoing and critical problem: British pilot recruits are not being trained quickly enough. A program that should take two or three years is now taking up to eight.
Official sources maintain that this is an expected challenge given the current operational context. Others call it “the biggest [screw] up in the RAF.” Either way, the outcome remains the same — the British militaryThe post Flying Desks, Not Planes: The Backlog in British Fast Jet Pilot Training appeared first on War on the Rocks.