Jackonicko - Whilst we could have kept the Jaguar going for a few more years - there must have been some of the airframes getting seriously on in terms of fatigue life. Replacing them with new Indian production machines woouldn't have been the answer. What the RAF needed to do back in the late eighties was to buy some F-16s to fill some of the gaps which existed from a number of types being amalgamated at the same time.