Mr Browne also said that the Harrier force was being withdrawn from the country - having first been deployed to Kandahar airfield in November 2004 as he was "very mindful of the strain" that the extended deployment had put upon the crews. They will be withdrawn by next spring and replace them with Tornado GR4s.
And on the 13th I wrote:
Word on the street is that the puffer jet will be in Afghanistan for at least another year, and will be replaced by the Tonka as they are pulled from Iraq. Taking an AD squadron of Typhoon and turning them into mud-movers will take time
So my source was pretty accurate, by the looks of things. Not surprising since he's the
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