Operating site flexibility B versus C
Chaps
I did not mean to stir up the whole austere site B/Harrier thing.
I suggested – and I stand by it – that the B has more operating site flexibility than the C. At sea it can be flown from smaller and simpler ships and ashore it needs less space to operate. Given the way the future never works out as the planners would wish I think those are useful characteristics for the UK.
My term ‘operating site flexibility’ should not be taken as code for something else or as jargon implying the flexibility of past Harrier ops.