Originally Posted by
Not_a_boffin
I'm still bemused as to why a T45 is being tasked to provide AD for the RAFs premier Med airbase. Given the threat appears to be primarily OWAS from Hezbollah, not sure what a T45 brings that a Sky Sabre battery from the RA doesn't.
Indeed.
You'd have thought a RA battery would have been deployed with the six F-35B's at the same time.
You'd have thought Akrotiri would have a Sky Sabre battery as a full time deployment anyway.....but, I suppose the bean counters don't see it as important. I still can't grasp why its no longer a RAFR task.