He might have said that, but who on earth fed him such a load of cr@p? Surely even a fishead would know that the Tornados based at RAF Mount Pleasant were of a totally different type to those in active service over Libya?
He's just made himself sound stupid. What a shame.
I deplore the axing of the Harrier Force and the Navy's carriers - but biased naval nonsense is doing no-one any favours.