TTH
I think you need to have a look again at some of the postings since the SDSR especially after the Libyan Ops started. As far as I can see, we in the UK all are busy trying to prove the former was right and sensible given our financial state or wrong and dangerous in view of it's defence impact.
In the meantime France, free of such inter-service bickering just rolls happily on with an aircraft that seems to do "what it says on the tin" from land or from a carrier.
