The title is totally misleading, I think the navy having got it's spin merchants on the job. The RN keeps it's carriers, but he RAF loses it's half the JSF buy, this a RN cut?
It also marks the demise of JFH with the RAF using Typhoon in place of JSF.
The RAF, which had been due to replace its Tornado aircraft with the JSF, will now equip all its frontline squadrons with Eurofighter aircraft instead.
The question here is whether this a cut with the purchased Typhoons being shared amongst smaller squadrons or whether they found they had no way out of the second half of Tranche 3.
Regardless, it a major cut for the RAF, not the RN, and a defeat for the Harrier Mafia.
It will also cause major heartache for the RN with the entire cost of purchase, maintenance, upgrade and manning of the JSF force now falling on just their shoulders.
You have to wonder what size of JSF force will now be purchased, 54-57? That was, after all, the total purchase of Sea Harrier FA1 and FA2.