TOFO
Thank you for your enlightening contribution to a thread which I know you did not like me starting. Your hurt shines out of your post and I sympathise with you and your mates. To see what amounts to your life’s work suddenly trashed unnecessarily and in such a cruel way is gutting.
While we are in danger of losing forever the accumulated wisdom and experience built up by the RAF MPA fleet, perhaps a brief window of opportunity still remains. If the RN is serious about picking up the chalice, and the indications are positive, then they would be foolish not to tap into that RAF expertise before it evaporates and save what they can. There ain’t much time and God knows how they can do it, but I hope they will try.
Despite your understandable pessimism about the future of the capability, I cannot believe we will never regain it. For our national security we cannot afford not to.