Originally Posted by
farefield
Hello Chaps, it's Nigel here (Sharkey to you). All this talk of aircraft doing this job is complete rot. With the fuel burnt in a day over the channel our Sea Harriers could have mounted 25 sorties in the Falklands and made a bloody sight better job than the RAF.
This channel job should be left to the RN.
Don't know if you're aware, but the RN don't have Sea Harriers any more, in fact do they have any FW aircraft at all (apart from half shares in F35s)?