Originally Posted by
Scruffy Fanny
Post war the country was in a mess yet the RAF had thousands of aircraft and 100000 + people and the UK could afford it so today with about 40,000 people and 200 + combat aircraft ...where is the money going????
About 1963 the V-Force was said to cost about £1M per aircraft. I know this was politician headline stuff with other costs no doubt hidden. At today's prices that million pounds would be £15.7M using RPI or £34.7M using average earnings.
Even allowing for political puff, the cost of one Typhoon today would have bought between 2 and 4 V-bombers. While the Vulcan could not drop a bomb down a manhole it could certainly vaporise the manhole and half a mile around in Moscow without an external support - no air refuelling, no GPS, no AWACs etc etc.