Interesting comment on the need for modern air defence assets from Gen Hornberg of the USAF.
"With air superiority, everything is possible. Without it, hardly anything's possible" he added. "People jump to the conclusion that it is ours just because we go. And that's blatantly false."
The US have woken up the fact the the some 3rd World countries now have equipment equal or superior to our own. Yet the Uk govt is still hell bent on denying the fleet the means to defend itself for 6 years - better make that 10 years the way CVF is panning out.