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Accepting that this may not be too popular with some, why is the RAF in the SH game at all? With no disrespect to the rotary girls and boys and the Regiment, we're not a land-centric force; the RM and the Army are. Therefore why not send the Chinooks and the Puma 2s to the AAC?
It works perfectly well for the Aussies and the US - and probably secures the rotary world a more secure funding structure in the bosom of the user of the service, rather than as an appendage of a very FJ focussed light blue world. Indeed, the same argument would (again, like the US) transfer land-based MPA to the RN, were we to have any left.
RAF then to focus on our core things - speedy, precise, projection of power at range, with the AT and support assets to make this happens. And protection of the UKADR....
Douhet had the right idea!
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Merry Christmas to all, especially those away on ops!
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