Geehova,
I think the £20Bn+ spent on Typhoon is quite enough on the "fighting arm" with god know's how many £Bn's to be thrown at F35 to come....the RNZAF is doing OK with RW/MPA/AT....
The recent largesse poured into AT/SH only serves to make up a fraction of the shortfall over past decades when FJ programmes have gobbled up the budget with indecent haste. Oh, btw, one could argue that AT/SH do constitute a large % of the fighting arm nowadays; they've been in harms way a lot more than the FJ boys and have taken significant combat attrition - the old boundary between front and second line is somewhat blurred by recent Ops.
Not meant to be a dig fella - in an ideal world we'd have a balanced budget and funds for all the toys we want.
Well done on C17 #8, now stop pratting around and buy 2 more, a sim and re-wing the C130Js......