So Starmer is sending another 4 Typhoons to Qatar.
Whoopee-do.
One thing that came out of GWI was that, to sustain a wartime 24hr AD posture it took the CR crews from a MOB wing (3 sqns), leaving just enough at home to keep training the LCR crews up to CR.
Best will in the world, with the UK QRA commitment, plus the jets deployed in Cyprus, the current force establishment sees inadequate for the tasking the PM is asking of it.
At the French, Greeks and Spanish are turning up to provide the TBM cover we haven't got.
(Only picked up a couple of days ago that the T45 won't have an anti-TBM capability till after it's next Aster upgrade*)
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https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-o...sile-upgrades/