I was rather hoping cokecan would come back after I responded to his claim:
the RAF fast jet capability has been the least used part of its fleet for the last 20 years, 
knows how many wars since 1991 have shown that the RAF's greatest contribution has been AT SH and ISTAR, yet those capabilities continually get the hind tit in terms of both cash and service priority, in contrast to the rarely used fast jets.
and that by turning up with fast jets we turn up with nothing much useful.
Also: cokecan claimed that we had made changes in some way by fielding RAPTOR - can you shed more light on what you meant by that? We were always planning on fielding RAPTOR, it's just that it didn't work for 4 years so we couldn't send it to Iraq.
Come on then: we provided fast jets for GW1, TELIC, Kosovo, Bosnia, Siera Leone and HERRICK (+ over a decade of no-fly zone enforcement in north and south iraq) but you seem to be saying that fast air has not been much use since 1991.
And by the way, we spent 2 years (since 2004) with fast jets dropping bombs in CAS in Afghanistan before the UK's green army turned up in 2006. We were also providing fast tactical recce with the same jets. The US and (separately) NATO asked the UK to provide CAS and tactical recce. What would you suggest we sent? A Tri-star perhaps? A chinook for the americans that already had more helicopters than they wanted?
No, we don't publicise all the uses of fast air since 1991. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, just that you are ignorant of it.