Snore...... Lewis Page - oh no! He is selling books (and therby has an agenda.... ). However!
We can do FI, Afghanistan and Iraq - 11sqn 232 jets - you're at best slightly unaware of what the 'real' military are doing and at worst on drugs/enjoying your non-deployable (outside of US/CAN/Euro hotels) life. I have NOTHING against FJs having seen firsthand US (and to an extent British) capability. However I have an awful lot against the outrageous FJ trg and 'ops' tail that puts what, a Sqn supporting Iraq and one supporting Afghan -good effort! The financial agreements and management of the Typhoon project is, without doubt, truly appalling. Truly appalling. Defending it is ludicrous. Other areas are by no means perfect (Flynx!!!!). Yet shallow accusations against journos pointing out rather obvious and droll facts (that the govt is rather quitet about) seems bizarre.... So, are you arguing this is the way Britain PLC should conduct business? Gents this = tedious. PS: Before you launch off on one read my post at the bottom of the link page about the NAO (where the press got their info from....although I'm sure they're 'in' on Page's 'bad' info too) before accusing websites of abject communism.