I'm involved in the Libya operation right now. I can quite categorically say that everyone who said that we should have binned Tornado and kept Harrier has been comprehensively proved wrong by this operation. If we'd have turned up with lusty or vince instead of the GR4s, we would not have had a seat at the top table. Garibaldi's jets are pretty much lost in the noise. Rafale is doing well, but there are loads of them and interestingly we seem to get more out of the land-based ones that we do out of those coming off CDG.
Lots of data to be studied yet but these are my first impressions from a pretty good place to judge.
Regards,
OA