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Old 4th May 2019, 07:06
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Originally Posted by Treble one
Sorry, only joking. I have no doubt the capabilities of our current RAF much exceed what we had in these times.
On individual missions you may be correct. Tanker for tanker, more reliable and more give away,

Fighter for fighter, or bomber for bomber too, but fighter-bomber for bomber and fughter , I am not sure. However you might argue that we are unlikely to need bombers and fighters at the same time.

But the situation might be likened to 1940. Deploy your fighters forward and have no home defence.

As an aside, I know that Typhoon sans were slated to be either fighter or bomber with some being swing role. Did that happen, or are they all swing role?

With modern deployment you can't load the bomber role exclusively on some sqns for the Syrian mission and others for the fighter role for the Baltic mission.
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