Jacko only gives the anti-carrier mantra. he needs to apply his undoubted intelligence in an unbiased way to the rest of the RAF:
Why are we replacing a CAS aircraft, which is the capability the troops seem to want, with a non-CAS aircraft (which Mark Lankester has revealed as taking huge amounts of money to enable) that the troops don't want?
Why is F3 still in service when the RAF have declared Typhoon operational and on QRA?
What is the GR4 doing in Iraq, there is no role for it? Indeed why do we still have GR4 when Typhoon is declared operational (oh yes, it is not deployable!).
There is only one reason - CAS does not want the RN (or AAC for that matter) flying aircraft....but who keeps crashing aircraft and UAVs at the moment????