I was involved with your P3 upgrade program people so they could take our experience and learn from it. Their plans were not over ambitious or expensive but a capability lost will never be recovered and I feel it will be lost.
Happily there is no threat to Kiwi for now, come to think there is little threat to anyone in the developed world.
Until some political arse creates one and then they will call on those left to rush to defend their morals especially in an election year.
We will lose lives to save money for our masters and do. I would not encourage the US way of welcoming heroes? back from a bump with a fighter. But we currently have a generation untouched by war and hardship and thus life is cheap and respect is low for those that secure and have secured their future.
Ill raise a glass to the demise of the RNZAF just dont give me any of that purple sh*t!