Mission data build
The UK RAF has made major efforts
to ensure that its mission data is
updated and improved frequently
and, as a consequence, many rate
the combat effectiveness of RAF
Typhoons as being higher than those
of some other nations.
Mission data is an extremely sensitive
national asset,however, and cannot be exported.
It has been reported that, to compen-
sate for this, BAE Systems is setting
up an Electronic Warfare Operational
Support (EWOS) facility to help the
Royal Saudi Air Force build its own
mission data. In the interim, BAE is
supplying company-compiled mis-
sion data, and it is believed that this
has been used by the RSAF during
recent operational missions against
Daesh targets in Syria, during which
Saudi Typhoons have dropped live
Paveway II and Paveway IV bombs.
SA Artillery