No need to be defensive Melchy
It was deliberately provocative, but a serious question about what the remainder of the RAF bring to the table? There’s a lot of shiny, expensive RAF kit not doing very much when that money could be well spent elsewhere. It's fine and well saying but what about future this that and the other, but Joe squaddie is fighting a war today.
No longer in Oz, guess I need to update that, but have plenty of time in the Army thank you very much even though I now work as an engineer, does that somehow make my thoughts invalid? Or are you saying something else?