Your seeing an agenda that isn't there. As for stripping the Army, I said above we should give the Army whatever they feel is the best recce platform. I don't see how that is stripping them?
As far as my own fleet, I recommended no increases other than the existing conversion of Mk3 and increase in aircrew.
The Sea Kings need replacing, the Merlin was designed to go to sea. The RN get 2 Sqns of newish airframes.(Incidentally, the same ones you keep raving about).
The RAF replace the aging (and overdue) Puma, and the Merlins ceded to the RN with Blackhawk.
I don't see what the light blue make out of this that the other two services don't?
Time to stop watching the X Files?