I understand the MR2 was the furthest forward RAF aircraft during GW2.
Rot; there were Tornados operating in the Baghdad super-MEZ and Harriers in the Western desert.
B Word, the air environment you describe would only last a day or two in a full on campaign
i.e. exactly when you need to be launching Storm Shadows (etc) for the initial attack on the IADS and C2 nodes
