"It should be 8 and 23 Sqns (E3-D) that disband as they do equally less in the current scheme of things...Apart from waste the defence budget travelling the world doing pointless exericises."
Seconded.
One E3D aircraft and 70 operators/maintainers to the USA for a Red Flag.
Harriers took 8 aircraft and 120 people for the same exercise.
Mind you, if they got rid of the E3Ds and the F3s, that's a whole lot of flying suits with their huge egos to match to relocate in one fell swoop!