However - the first question is "what are the targets and where are they?" If part of the answer is "submarines", the second is "Do we believe that this high-altitude ASW stuff works?"
It clearly isn't working yet, as the various P-8 OT&E reports seem to indicate. But high-powered, highly-paid RAF people seem confident that it will work by the time we need it to, let alone by the time that the French and Germans will need it
REALLY ! somebody please say that this isn’t true !