Tranche3
"but the appropriate level of funding for all three services, not the robbing Peter to pay Paul approach we've seen for the last decade."
Precisely, which is why I and most of the other CVF fanboys on here think the RAF should get the full allocation. Those machines have got to last a long time, and do a lot of work. The MOD / government has basically been very fortunate in that for the last decade it has been able live off a huge cold war legacy in equipment. That equipment is now being burned through on operations. The only thing which is going to prevent a standstill is A LOT more cash. It is precisely like the railways when Labour came to power. The Tories ran that system down because it was an easy area to save cash. So upgrades were postponed, and equipment run on. Suddenly the whole system is literally a train wreck, and you’ve got to spend huge amounts just to stand still, and more to claw your way back up the hill again.