Gents,
IMHO it would be a RW disaster if the RAF got hold of Apache (speaking as a Crab..) because the pervading sympathy in the RAF would be "why send AH to do a Harriers job and lose a couple of DSOs?" The pressure on RW procurement would get even worse; the trouble is that I don't think the AAC has many friends at the top table of the Army. It's not the right cap-badge, officers do not serve sucessful full careers and AH has taken a lot of LAND's budget that they would rather spend on Tanks, Artillery and mustard cords / ridiculous jumpers.
IMHO if we want to be serious about RW Avn, we need to seperate JHC out into its' own TLB to cut it away from the craven desires of the 3 services. While we're at it, lets put amphib ships and JFH into it as well and create a USMC style fourth service that is capability, not equipment, obsessed and trains for today's conflicts not some military-industrial complex satisfying "virtual" conflict against a peer enemy...