Vec, I agree. I wonder if Hezbollah will be as cooperative when uncle same turns up. I would not be surprised if Illustrious landed her GR7s at Gib which seems to be the norm.
Luckily Iwo Jima carries AV8Bs so that problem is covered, although it would not look very good in the eyes of the muslim world if the US and Israel were bombing Beirut at the same time, even if it was for different reasons.
Off on a slightly different tangent, has anyone noticed the dearth of publicity about the exploits of 800NAS of late. We were used to regular news stories pre April and then virtually nothing. Also our only fixed wing NAS does even appear on the official RN website. What gives?