Let’s get back to those numbers. Would you say, in order to ensure a decent force mix, we should have about 10000 Typhoons and 5000 F35s?
Lets pick some some semi random but plausible costs. Say £50M per Typhoon and £80M per F35. So, by my maths, we just need to find £900,000,000,000 (shall we just call it a nice round £Trillion?).
All we need to do now is work out the rotary, transport and UAV costs and add in the wages and pensions bill and we can present it to parliament for approval. I’m sure the electorate won’t mind the extra few percent on their income tax. Besides, it’s only the squeezed middle that’ll actually pay and who cares about them anyway?
Do I need to add that I’m only kidding or does that go without saying?
BV