In March 2015, revised T-X requirements were released. The replacement programme for the T-38 was initiated by the US Air Force in 2010 and the first draft requirement documents were released in 2012. T-X full operational capability is scheduled for 2034 meaning that some T-38Cs will need to soldier on in the advanced training role for another 16 years or more! Back in early 2015 Brigadier General Dawn Dunlop, the then Director of Plans, Programs and Requirements, Air Education and Training Command (AETC), commented the T-38C is: “no longer a practical trainer to prepare air force pilots for newer, more advanced aircraft”.Įven if the T-X programme unfolds on schedule, initial operational capability for the new training system will not occur until 2024. Today the T-38C only meets twelve of the 18 major US Air Force training requirements for the advanced phase of the undergraduate pilot training programme designed to produce qualified pilots to effectively fly fighters and bombers. The US Air Force has been flying the Northrop T-38 jet trainer for its advanced pilot training programme since the early 1960s.ffIt has been a great advanced trainer but many of the T-38s have been flying for over 50 years and have been rebuilt many times. We rapidly built a cohesive team with Saab and our other supply base partners that is not always easy to do.”
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