Tourist,
I was referring to the argument, many moons ago, made by our Air Officers when pursuing funds for the F3. It is said that they put forward a case that the funds required for replacing the ageing carriers and RN F4s would infact be better spent on several Sqns of shiny new F3s (radars to follow).
The story goes that when asked how the RAF could possibly defend the RN worldwide, the Air Officers replied by producing a rather large map of the world complete with range circles which demonstrated that the F3 could infact patrol the over the seven seas with ubiquioty. They did however fail to mention that the had moved Australia 2000miles North. Poetic License...