As we were discussing over lunch - how far have we come in the past 60 years? Given that 60 years ago we used to be able to put 1000 bombers in the air at any one time and fly to Berlin and back in a night, repeatedly, I really would ask just how far we actually have come now that we are struggling to maintain a capability that sees us struggling to get a handful of jets to theatre.
Apples and oranges there dear chap. You can't really compare
- fairly agricultural platforms flown from a home base with a whole country geared towards a war effort, to
- technologically advanced platforms flown from the other end of a very tenuous logistics chain while the rest of the nation goes about business as usual.