I would have thought the obvous answer would be to eventually re-equip the Red's with the 128 Hawk, still a good export earner...
Warships do a lot of export work on overseas visits, not quite sure what the Army do, must be something positive beyond encouraging Kalashnikov sales... ( Joke, great respect ).
Even better if the Reds could have Hawk 200 single seaters, which would also be useful to the RAF, but I've met serving light blue pilots who don't even know such an aircraft exists - and other fairly high ranking who were begging for it -, and it ain't gonna happen, besides, no rides for groundcrew ( important ) or banana republic types ( could be handled by BAES ).
As for any mention of binning the BBMF ( whose cost is more than covered by comfy chairs and plasma telly's for civil serpents ) - I would be one of very many getting hold of a gun or at least a bat with a nail through it and striding towards Downing Street !
Last edited by Double Zero; 21st Jun 2010 at 13:23.