nav attacking:
The sad thing is that whilst we have the luxury of being able to banter away on such a back stabbing forum that this has now sunk to, another 4 UK troops have lost their lives this week due to a lack of sufficient decent equipment supporting them on the ground whether that be, SH, ISTAR, CAS, MEDIVAC assets, hardened vehicles or body armour. We all try our best with what we have left and that is what makes the British Armed Forces what they are.
Then surely the answer is to do what PPRuNe does best, calling for such deficiencies to be put right! As you say they have cost lives and will cost even more, often with little or no enemy input. This forum in particular has the knowledge and experience required to campaign for the lack of UK military airworthiness provision to be addressed. Aircraft must be made fit for purpose, which the Hercules, Nimrod and Chinook threads have shown has been far from the case to date. An independent (of the MOD) Military Airworthiness Authority is the way to go IMHO. Can we have a grown up discussion about that, or is banter all that is on offer?