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.
I think Lord West has come out and said pretty much that!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...jority-public/