Alf old chap,
Are you still smarting from that day at Valley when you got told you weren't good enough to fly a Harrier so now spend your life making daft comments about it?
'slow, single-engine, picked off etc' blah blah. Well regardless of what RAF mud aircraft you fly I can't imagine you intentionally fly through CAPs unless you are truly dense. (moving your wings about doesn't generally scare people off)
The RAF/Navy doesn't have a true multi-role aircraft of the F15E/F16 capabilites. That doesn't stop us all having a pretty good stab at a wide range of jobs. The mighty Fin definitely has pluses (and minuses) as does the Jag and the Harrier. So before you go slagging off something you can't fly and don't know anything about think a second:
The platform which dropped the most bombs in the Gulf War was the USMC Harrier (we're good at cas... Tonkas aren't particularly); the Falklands relied fairly heavily on our ability to land on boats; Allied Force was far from a total disaster and there were a more than a couple GR7s floating around day/night and we were the first (and only - until people started feeling left out) people to put our hand up and say we'd go in night low-level cas to support the ground offensive.
So get over the humiliation of role confirmation night and get on with your life.
