LX3/8 is going to be replaced with SCMR (Wildcat).
How about we pull all Merlin MK1 from the ass end of the T23.
Replace T23 flights with LX3/8 as applicable and let them run the Lynx fleet down.
Fish head ship tours will be heavily constained by lack of funding....Real world events in AFG....lots of diembarked LX Flights
Take a dozen or so Merlin Mk1 and convert to Merlin MK1C for theatre.....How difficult is it to remove and/or disable the whale hunter/radar.
Not an ideal solution but a possible one none the less in advance of a order for CH47/NH90/Merlin Mk 4/AW139 ETC
LX7 is shagged in theatre until LX9A with T800 is cleared.
OR
Urinate into wind.