UK To Form Second Qatari Joint Squadron To Support Typhoon Order

Hawk
The joint Hawk training squadron will train pilots for the RAF and the QEAF.
Credit: RAF
LONDON—The UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is to establish a second joint squadron with the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) to support the training of fast jet pilots for the Gulf state. The new unit, to be formed at Leeming, England in September, will fly nine BAE Systems Hawk Mk.167 jet trainers which...

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