Quoting Gordon Brown tonight, who says he is quoting the the chief of the air staff..
FWIW(?), he claimed to be quoting the CDS, not CAS:
"I would say, with the chief of the defence staff, who said himself we are the best-equipped armed forces in our history as a result of the action we have taken.
I'm not complacent. I want to do more. But we have put the helicopters in. We have put the vehicles in. And we are giving our troops the equipment we need."