Originally Posted by
ORAC
Asturias56,
They could route via Greece and refuel and hold ground alert in Romania - the RAF currently has a Typhoon detachment providing QRA fighter cover out of Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase which, presumably, could assist.
Of course - but then it that case they could just fly out direct from the UK - the carrier is irrelevant (shades of the arguments in the '60's) if they have to use land bases