I understand that RAF Cottesmore had a decommisioning parade today. Are the Harriers still there? What will happen to them?
cazatou
Good comment - hard to top. SDSR did imply that nothing would happen for ten years.
d55
What sort of tweaks do you forsee? Just with regard to Libya, shipborne USMC and Italian Harriers are busy there, as are French Rafales and Super Etendard from the
Charles De Gaulle, Libyan MiGs and naval vessels have been active, a
small naval engagement has taken place, and the MOD website boasts of the contribution of HMS
Cumberland - soon for the SDSR axe. Just as we are
paying off surface warships we are trying to find more of them to
send to the Libyan coast.
Perhaps the real thing to note is the way in which the Libyan thing seems to have popped up overnight?
Meanwhile, the problems continue alsewhere, with possible civil war in Yemen, and other places in the Middle East, renewed predictions of
wars over water, a
potential war in the Ivory Coast (will Western involvement be desirable?), and the events in Japan will have energy security inplications.
Interesting times eh?
