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Hi, i am interested in joining the RAF as a weapon technician.

If anyone could provide me with information about the job etc it would be much appreciated.

I have only found the job description on the RAF careers website. I am planning on going to the AFCO within the next month.

http://www.rafcareers.com/jobs/job_file ... nician.cfm

Cheers

Hi Alex, I don't know to much about the trade, but hopefully have at least some useful info for you. First things first, the RAF are considering merging the aircraft engineering trades e.g weapons tech and airframes tech are merging, as are propulsion and avionics tech, so you may have to consider if you would enjoy working on airframes aswell. This would also mean 2 years of trade training rather than 1 year.

Next thing.....Weapon tech: I did some work experience with some of the w techs working on RAF Jaguars a couple of years ago and the trade seems ok. Basically your working on the "pylons" (the things that the weapons are attatched to on the jets). This includes servicing them and making sure that the mechanisms that realease the bombs/missiles etc are working. You also fit the pylons onto the aircraft aswell as the bombs etc, and put the machine gun ammo into its compartment on the aircraft. This is what I got to see of the trade, although i'm sure theres much more to it than that. Oh yeah, just remembered another thing, you also work on ejection seats, servicing etc.

Hope this helps mate.

Good luck

Adam

p.s if you wan't more info on the trade, contact llatm, i'm sure he'll be willing to help you!

the RAF are considering merging the aircraft engineering trades e.g weapons tech and airframes tech are merging, as are propulsion and avionics tech, so you may have to consider if you would enjoy working on airframes aswell. This would also mean 2 years of trade training rather than 1 year.

This has already happened. The new trade is called Aircraft Maintenance Mechanic (AMM). You do a shorter (3 month) course at RAF Cosford before spending a few years as a mechanic. If you are performing well, you then go back to Cosford to finish training as a Technician. Your AFCO will have the full details of the changes, and how that would affect you.

[quote]the RAF are considering merging the aircraft engineering trades e.g weapons tech and airframes tech are merging, as are propulsion and avionics tech, so you may have to consider if you would enjoy working on airframes aswell. This would also mean 2 years of trade training rather than 1 year.


Just for your info, the Airframe and propulsion trades are merging, becoming AMM, and the avionics and electrical trades are merging becoming AME. The Weapons techs are not merging with any one at the moment.

If you do become a weapons tech be prepared to spend time in the armoury servicing small arms. any other info you want let me know.

Cheers for the info, sounds a little how i imagined it. Im going down to bristol AFCO this friday, so hopefully they can provide more information.

Thanks