Yes sir. I spent a very enjoyable 5 years as firstly the Flt Trg Off on 25 Sqn, Then 18 months on 85 Sqn (horrible as MOD were spending over £2 million on a waste of space upgrade to turn anologue radar displays into colour digital displays that didn't work). Our only decent 80 mile low level to 80,000ft UK defensive SAM system was scrapped in 1991 because of the cost (minimal) of replacing the 4 solid propellant boost rockets on 300+ missiles. Very sad as those systems were very effective - especially when jammed. Nothing of their capability will ever be comissioned again to defend UK airspace.
How are the Gulf War 1 US supplied Patriot's doing for Israel? I suspect that as we speak the USA (Raytheon) are updating those systems as a matter of urgency.......... (The algorithms were cocked up in GW1 resulting in an RAF Tornado loss).
CIOW