So toddbabe - using your vast knowledge of the Air Force (can't even get the spelling of your Chief of Air Staff correct) and the way the Treasury works where exactly is the money going to come from to buy this "decent amount of UAVs" from? Typhoon budget - nope, moneys already been spent. Red Arrows - nope, too much
PR for UK plc. Jaguar - nope, saved peanuts. MRA4 - nope, money has been spent (even though we don't have the airframe yet). Education? Could always make everybody pay for schooling. Heatlth? Scrap the NHS? Social Security? Get rid of the dole? Defence? We could always get rid, overnight, of another aircraft type (and the people after all for a an aircraft in service they tend to be the biggest cost) GR4? GR7? F3? MR2? What effect would that have on the broader defence aims rather than one specific fleet?
And where exactly will the UAVs come from? Do you think the US have a "UAV Supermarket" where you go with your cheque book and buy them, literally, off the shelf. Why do you think its taken so long to get 2, let alone 3? No manufacturer is going to build UAVs (or aircraft) for the military market on the off chance someone may want them.
As you appear, from this and other threads, seem to be full of good ideas why don't you get your ar5e posted into MOD and sort it out from there instead of making naive comments on t'internet.
Be grateful we got the UAVs we have got. With the MODs hands tied by wondeful legislation as theDefence Industrial Strategy and the like its amazing we are allowed to procure, even by UOR, anything that isn't made by Westlands or BAe Systems.
Rant off!
