Originally Posted by pr00ne
BEagle,
Ah that 'proper Air Force' you constantly bang on about.
A 'proper' Air Force that had only 5 Air Defence Squadrons for the UK at the height of the Cold War, was about to ditch guns on those fighters, had a nuclear only RAF Germany, had a front line composed largely of Hunters and Canberras that a CAS of the time admitted would be like pitching Fairey battles against ME109's if they had ever been called on to fight in the air, was totally dominated in funding and doctrine terms by the V force, had FR Squadrons in Germany with 9 Hunter FR10's each and a front line force that had 4 days worth of munitions and war stocks.
Hmmmm.......I'd say 1962 is close to that description of the RAF.
In which case, there was actually 11 x UK AD Sqns
I grant you that 5 years later we were virtually down to just 3 for a very short time
