Originally Posted by
langleybaston
A genuine question born of some ignorance and some insight:
Does RAFAT ........... about a dozen airframes, top guns and top trades, have a war role deep inside a war book?
As in swift coat of paint, swift bolt on some sort of ordnance, and last ditch?
My insight is that I had some involvement in War Books in the 80s and 90s, when comparable measures were planned.
If the answer is NO, then, in these troubled times, I would disband and redeploy the Reds.
The Hawks in the old days did have the auxiliary fighter role. Over a third of a century ago. Disband the Reds? You must be bonkers! Its the most flying anyone gets in the Air Force these days I wager. Certainly my mate whom is on them. Had virtually sod all post his QFI tour. But his is the opposite to the Bad Apples taken out. You know the UK is gone if the Reds go.