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13th Jul 2010, 11:30

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oldgrubber

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What, no jets!

THS,

If the RN are out of the “fast jet”, and therefore by default, the “force projection” business, then so is Great Britain. The RAF are good at what they do, but that isn’t going to sea for prolonged periods (they really do just see a ship as an airstrip with no need to integrate and be “the crew”). I work with a lot of RAF and they all say that if they wanted to go to sea they would have joined the navy and that really is fair enough. It was suggested in the 60s that land based options are difficult to protect and supply without significant resources (even more difficult now that the British land based forces are so much reduced). The physical world map hasn’t changed so how can shore based assets provide cover now any more than they could when Australia “moved” a few hundred miles to prove CAP cover, (damn big aircraft carrier the RAF had there).
Why don’t we just “do” a New Zealand, how’s that working out for them? http://www.warisboring.com/?p=1548.

Cheers now.

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