Speaking at a launch event on 4 July ahead of this weekend’s International Air Show at RAF Waddington, senior service officers said options remained open for the aircraft.
In October 2010, the government’s SDSR announced the Sentinel would be ‘withdrawn once it is no longer required to support operations in Afghanistan’. The main bulk of British forces are due to leave by the close of 2014. However, RAF commanders said any support to Afghan security forces beyond this date would still be classified as a Herrick task.
Additionally, RAF sources said it had not yet begun contemplating winding down the training programmes for pilots, mission commanders and image analysts that is conducted in conjunction with Raytheon at RAF Waddington.
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