Pheasant,
Perhaps you ought to read the thread as Chinook240 suggests..... It might give you a more rounded view of what the issues are for both Services. Throbbing away on this forum will get you precisely nowhere. JHC have the word 'Joint' in the title, not Navy or RAF. It would be politically unacceptable for Fox to reveal helicopter redundancies in either Service. The redundancies are coming (because there will be physically less platforms to fly) but they will be hidden. Prepare for compromise..........