Haters can hate as much as they like, but the Red Arrows are the RAF's only real
PR tool nowadays, particularly with the demise of military SAR. How many British residents even see a military aircraft these days? How many people realise the BBMF is an RAF unit? Apart from the flypast over London how many people even know we have an air force?
And if you take the Red Arrows our of the picture then those figures will get even smaller.