Navaleye,
Your statement...."By the summer an operational unit consisting of four Apaches and two Lynx helicopters will be merged into 16 Air Assault Brigade — Britain’s answer, on a much smaller scale, to the American 101st “Screaming Eagles” Division. Next year a full battle group of 16 Apaches and eight Lynxes will be operational, but it will take until 2007 for the whole Apache force to reach full war-ready status. The Apache programme began in the early 1990s."...almost sounds like a Yank talking. I would suggest two Lynx and four Apaches do not an Airmobile Division make....heck...it ain't even a platoon formation for a "lift company" and there's four platoons in the company. Now I know the British Army is the only professional military in the world and all...but do give us a break here. We got more Apaches doing gate guard duty on iron poles than that!
