Guys I think that you're all using the wrong planning assumption. Post afghan withdrawal we're not going to have an active role on the world stage. We'll stll send out BATTs, but our large scale participation in coalition operations as the UK is at an end. I'm thinking Danish/Dutch/Swedish participation levels at which point, as sad as it is, 6 FJ sqns etc is about it!
Three countries we're being compared to here, the sum total of their populations amounts to less than a third of ours. Some people seem too happy prophesying the end and disaster. Is it just because we're having to pick up the pieces of a disasterous government that nobody can possibly imagine an upturn in fortune somewhere along the line. The very report which sparked this thread did say much else besides. For one instance, the expectation, however, difficult to judge, that we could still end up with a 100 F35Cs, eventually.
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