Originally Posted by
pr00ne
Well, 12 Squadron's Qatari commitment is described as 'temporary,' and 9 squadron have recently deployed 4 Typhoons to Romania on operational NATO air defence tasking, so I don't think that you can get any more front line than that!
They were plundered as a source of manpower and airframes - exactly the same as when they sent people to Shader earlier this year. They don't sit in the Ops plot.
Hey ho, I'm not going to die in a ditch over this but you are swallowing the propaganda if you think 12 and 9 are true front line Sqns.