And there, Mr Boffin, you take me back to my days in MoD (War Plans and Policy). When the WP folded, we discovered what false assumptions we had been working on, I won’t go in to detail, but for argument’s sake the Sov AF was found to have about 25%-30% of the capability we had been anticipating.
How good are RU assets now? Numbers, yes. Technology, yes. Conscript manned and serviced … ah, there’s a question we cannot answer.