London Mil. Don't see anywhere that UK was mentioned in this thread.
Not tripe, fact. Coming from UK through the Netherlands the TACAN route followed in the case I mentioned was over Gilze into Germany; turn south at NOR then via NTM to LUXIE. Then again to the South into France where towards DIJ.
Flight plan data was passed by Dutch Mil to Lippe and was correlated on our displays Our initiative, when all the airspace was delegated to us, one phone call turn him direct DIJ. We knew it would be accepted down the line. Track distance normally saved only about 100n.m., but multiply it by the number of flights.
The military controllers had been instructed not to ask for direct routings.
Possibly the "imminently flexible" UK mil. gets stuffed by their civil counterparts,
I'm no longer in a position to say.
FWIW I spent my early career "down the hole" at Southern Radar, so have seen the military mind in action there
