Originally Posted by
LateArmLive
No Hawk, AlphaJet or SkyHawk would make a suitable Red Air / Aggressor aircraft these days, unless the threat you are simulating is one of decades long past.
Unfortunately, a credible threat costs money and that's not something the UK seems to have a lot of these days when it comes to increasing operational capability. More electric scooters and Astra please...
Yup, you nailed it. All that’s going to happen is they’ll get an adversary platform which would have been useful 20 years ago. Gripen is the answer, it’s a shame that they can’t afford it.