When we were planning to gets lots of JSFs – some for the Navy, some for the RAF the picture was quite rosy – now we will have more deck space on the carriers than airframes it looks like a bun fight on who will own them and where they will fly from - nice!
Two more Typhoon squadrons still to come and will be based at Lossie along with 6 Sqn.
Presumably two Tornado units will make way for them? And then the remaining Lossie Tornado unit (the OCU?) will move to Marham.
But then I forgot that we are planning to retire the tranche 1 Typhoons before the end of the decade.
So by 2020 or so the RAF might be down to 4 frontline Sqns of Typhoons and part owner (maybe) of 50 JSFs?