Surely the bottom line on this stupidity is that the Harrier mission availability in Afghanistan was 95 per cent while the Tornado mission availability is 50 per cent. No wonder Fox sat there with anger etched across his face and Stanhope didnt discover the Harrier was axed until the day of the announcement, having thought it was saved! At least two Tornados lost on the runway at Kandahar because they couldnt even get off the ground and the crews had to eject, and this inability to do the job comes at what cost to lives in the field? Then Cameron gets up and says that it is the best aircraft for Afghanistan - on the say-so at the last minute of Stirrup, surely the worst chief of defence staff in history. The RAF Tornado mob seem to live in an Alice in Wonderland world!