Wlt: Weapon Load Trainer Tender, United Kingdom - 127261867

Procurement Summary

Country: United Kingdom

Summary: Wlt: Weapon Load Trainer

Deadline: 31 Oct 2025

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 127261867

Document Ref. No.: 715631469

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Background A Weapon Load Trainer (WLT) was part of the original Eurofighter training solution. The RAF WLT was cancelled by the RAF/Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) around 2002 to release funding for improved pilot training courseware. An attempt to resurrect the WLT was made by the RAF staffed UK Joint Training Team in 2004, but the attempt failed. Using a 'live' aircraft is not without its issues; it is necessary to remove and refit some pylons twice on each course. The aircraft structure and pylons are not designed to meet this continued removal/refit utilisation rate; therefore, an increased component wear and failure rate could be expected which would place an additional demand on the supply chain and aircraft serviceability. The current training solution necessitates the transferral of training from a controlled environment in TTF, which is conducive to learning, to an operational workplace environment, which has many distractions and is less beneficial to initial learning. Using maintenance opportunities to train is fraught with risk and subjects the students and instructors to added pressure and danger; "one off" activities do not provide sufficient opportunity for practice to mastery or formative and summative assessment as necessary to meet the RPS hence, exercises have to be repeated in an inefficient and ad-hoc manner. Considerable time is required to prepare a FAF aircraft for the training role and then to recover it, which in itself can add to the maintenance bu...

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