What's the point of having tankers, anyway? We only seem to use them for taking pointy jets on exercise to N America or SSII. Or at best, it seems that it is only by accident do they get left behind in the ME to help out the USN. In the meantime, no sign of RAF steely-eyed killers in ****.
Not that I'm having a go at the FJ pukes - it just seems that the politicos aren't interested in sending expensive stuff into the hills when we can get 'Dubya face-time' by sending in 'el-cheapo' 16AAB/45 Cdo and Wokkas to do Uncle Sams dirty work for him.