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Old 15th Nov 2009, 18:11
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TorqueOfTheDevil
 
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SAR helos to the RN (most of the work is over the sea)
I'll restrict myself to taking issue with just one of your points...give SAR to the RN if you like but they will spend about as much of their time over the sea as the Junglies! (ie some but not much).

The days of SAR being mostly maritime are long since gone, due largely to the decimation of the fishing industry; the quantity of overland tasking has also increased with better liaison with civ emergency services and dropping the "Downed aircrew is the primary role" mantra, allowing a wider range of tasking to be undertaken. BTW, it's not that the SAR Force doesn't care about downed aircrew any more, it's just that mil aircraft crashes are relatively few and far between these days; ergo there's no point having a large fleet of helicopters whose main stated prupose is dealing with an eventuality which, fortunately, is increasingly infrequent.
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