Groundhog day in the Sea Jet thread.
I think you guys are on to something, layered defence. Brilliant.
We can have the mini-guns, then 20mm, then Phalanx, then Sea Wolf, then Sea Dart, then PAAMS, then ramjet missiles......and then we can have short range organic air defence with ASACS and we could then get some long range AD to layer that. Fantastic, no-one would ever get near us.
And if we don't get everything, all of the time, we just down tools and say we aren't going to play. Grumbling quietly to ourselves about the Falklands and how 8 organic aircraft with 50mins on task at a sensible range, (for about 2 days until they are all lead nose or U/S on deck,) will be able to solve an organic capability crisis so serious that airforces around the world are lining up to exploit it in the 8 or so years that we only rely on the 3000+ coalition land based AD aircraft to give the Fleet a layered defence.
But that's just silly isn't it?
Thank goodness you guys don't have any power or influence in the procurement field. The up side is that at least we'd be well equipped to fight another Falklands campaign. Assuming the enemy was stuck in a time warp and did it exactly the same as in 1982.
Roll on the 31st of March so that this thread can be transferred to 'Aviation History and Nostalgia.'