Red Line Entry
Aside from the war against a "superpower" issue, the other one is that HMG still wants to maintain the strategic capability to build the most complex military equipment "in house".
We know there is a plan in force for Nuclear Submarines and Surface Warships but as
SSSETOWTF indicated, the F-35 seems to have become the only manned FJ programme with a future post 2020 and substantial UK involvement.
SSSETOWTF also made the point about the choice being between deploying a package of aircraft with stand-off jammers & Rivet Joints etc
or a couple of LO aircraft with some appropriate planning" We seem to have decided to be go down the latter route with the inevitable result that the manned FJ element of our Air Force/Navy will be smaller and use LO and/or Typhoon and/or with UAV's.
