A serious question. Like, love or otherwise the whole 'keep a few Harriers for skill preservation' idea, why is it always a RNR plan?
One of the major arguments against the plan disappears if it were to be RN. The counter I guess being that the post SDSR RN complement didn't cater for a modest uplift in personnel at Yeovilton.
(I personally think the idea's a non starter due to unit size being sub-critical mass, the embarked footprint achievable being too small, the training burden on individuals to requalify on Harrier 1 and the RTS support etc all being just a little too difficult and the product having very little commonality with a cat and trap deck)