It may be bovine but in this case its a bull with nuts like a pair of spacehoppers swinging between its legs. SH has probably been the most important single element of air power in both our recent eastern jaunts.
I accept your point about improtance, (debateable about primacy though) but does the average tom care as to whether it has ARMY or that STUPID logo on the side of the cab ?
Pop away, but the baseline is the music is going to stop soon and we are way short on seats - so why not reconfigure a force structure that is out of kilter when compared with similar nations armed forces ?