Hawkeye, Merlin or nothing?
Now that we are officially heading towards a "proper" cat and trap capability; what will the future be for martime AEW? Will it be stick with the compromise Merlin option? Borrow Hawkeyes from the USN or French (though with Flottille 4F only having three airframes not much scope there!), or hopefully dig deep and buy a few Hawkeyes ourselves? If we do go for a "buy" will the RAF bag them or will 849 NAS return to fixed wing flying? Or will we just kick it into the long grass and go for another capability "holiday"
