Originally Posted by
Chinny Crewman
With 4 months to go before he announced it I'm sure he would have known it was on the cards! History will judge him on how the country shapes up post Brexit but for now he is looking like one of if not the worst post war PM.
I am reliably informed that the decision to chop Harrier vice Tornado was made by CAS only 3 days before the anouncement. His reasoning being that if Tornado went, he would have less aircraft than Belgium! What a way to run an Air Force!!
Only months later we were tanking Tornados from a secret base in East Anglia all the way to Lybia and back every night, instead of having Jumping Beans on alert 20 miles off shore.