Oil Can
Point is you cannot answer the question.
Both parties require the air asset to be in the right place at the right time.
Civil achieves this requirement safely, military fails to (statistics prove that).
Until this argument is accepted, the military will not move forward.
Additionally I would suggest that it cannot be argued that civil airframes are less complex than military due to modern avionics systems and fly by wire systems, and the need to satisfy an independant auditor.
The key difference is that civil pay for safety and reliability.
Please do not beleive for one minute that I do not accept the criticallity of air assets to those on the ground, however I suspect that the value of the RAF engineering organisation within this equation is being pushed out.
If I hire a car from Hertz, I do not worry about the service history or maintenance of the vehicle it is a given, that is what I pay the contractor to do.
Generating trully servicable assets can be acheived without blue suits. If you do not beleive that, or recognise the need for change, I would suggest that it will be imposed on you.