Originally Posted by
Dominator2
If nothing else it would show the RN what "Rapid Response" means. Maybe, Operation - Before the Dragon.
Easy Tiger, lest someone point out the absurdity of the RAF needing to ask the Navy to send a ship a couple of thousand miles to defend the service's premier airbase in the Med against an air threat......
Not least when the airfoce appears to have decided to deploy its most expensive and capable tac air asset to an unhardened fixed airbase where they are vulnerable to attack. The irony......