Originally Posted by
typerated
They just need a new mount:
Realistically a 3 aircraft team would more than do a job.
If I was a teenager I'd much prefer 3 Typhoons and lots of afterburner to 9 hawks.
A lot cheaper to run I'd imagine.
Could use painted spares aircraft for state flypasts to bump the team up to a 5 ship once or twice a year.
Perhaps a 4-ship and a solo, sometimes with or separate. That would certainly do it. It all depends of course on the very uncertain future we currently face of course, the RAF, indeed, HM Forces, have very little depth now, what I mean is elasticity, surplus, there isn't any. But remember, I think it was Stalin, rightly said, Quantity has a quality all of its own. Something like that anyway.
FB