GPMG, I see what you mean - I've just looked at The Sun's web site. Pretty punchy stuff and long overdue from any shade of the media.
Armed farces are cut to shreds!
There is a linked article on the RAF's lack of aircraft:-
OVERWORKED Royal Air Force passenger jets have broken down — leaving only ONE to ferry British troops to and from the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Let us hope that Joe Public actually reads, absorbs and reacts to these stories.