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youve got more money to spend so you give the aac the raf support helicopter force, wheres the logic in that? as the paras jump from raf c130s why not give the aac the c130s as well. and why not give the navy the nimrods as well! now what you said about the hawk 200 was a good idea.and as for having bases near the war why doesnt the british government speak to the cypriot government and see if we can use on of their airports, or maybe the raf can see sense and use akrotiri. personally i would put a lot of money in to improving the state of a lot of military airfields, how about ils on all runways and cat 3 lighting? i remember in the early 80s that it was going to be standard to have ils on all runways, whatever happened to that?