Finningley Boy,
What an excellent comparison.
A war of national survival versus a skirmish of choice in a UK that is trying to find billions in public spending savings.
FB11,
I can most certainly appreciate the subtle difference between the two scenarios, but yet again the point still stands, this is capital expenditure, not Defence Budget expenditure and while that is a mute point as far as the tax payer is concerned its still not really the concern of the R.A.F. But again, the pro-Harrier argument is all here, has anyone on that side factored in the full cost of ordering HMS Ark Royal or Illustrious to the Mediterranean from say the Gulf Straits or the Indian Ocean, had they been at that point last Weekend? Or would this simply not have arisen?
FB
