WLT: Weapon Load Trainer
- Published
- 23 October 2025
- Place of performance
- UK
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 067757-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05970d
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 80650000Training and simulation in aircrafts, missiles and spacecrafts
Description
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…
Official publications
- FTS · 067757-2025 · 23 October 2025
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