NRDK
The yellow cabs, along with 771, 819 and Bristows SAR,
support the UK.
There is all sorts sorts of s*** that happens in the UK that UK SAR assets deal with. You cannot deploy UK SAR to do a warfighting role. Just how would a SAR SK "support the current stretched frontline forces outside the UK."?
Your suggested airframes are struggling in their current role sandy side.
The JPR tasking for UK SAR in a deployed location, which is your suggestion, (you do know what JPR is, do you?) is a quantum leap and is not easily achieved without a substantial refit of an airframe with DAS, and armament, and space for a group of blokes with guns.
Denigrating UK SAR, of any colour, does you no favours.
Oh, and by the way, be careful swimming off Dollar Cove during the summer, you may well need a UK SAR helicopter.
SARBLOKE, I'm with you
