all the shiny new Typhoons we are getting to a single AD capability, which is apparently now the case, defies reason and perhaps says something about the focus of the top brass in the RAF.
Quite wrong actually, the Typhoons, it would appear, are having to pick up the slack of the disappearing Tornado GR4s. Wasn't suppose to happen that way and with the Typhoons greatly downsized in number, the F35C numbers all but written off ala TSR2 and the Harriers and Jaguars well and truly short serviced. All in all with the Nimrods gone and the Sentinels going all leaving the R.A.F. with a loss of comfortably more than 70% of its air combat capability (the actual reason for having an air force) I think to suggest the air chiefs are a little narrow in focus is a tad unsympathetic. Rather as if the General Staff were trying to cling onto the last dozen or so Infantry Battalions.
FB
