Finningley,
Honestly, I do have to chime in here. That's a fairly classic RAF response. As if the RAF had managed to avoid all that 'warry' stuff by just being so good.
Shame about all those 'other' wars since WW2 that RAF fighters weren't quite able to get to, in which the fighter pilots of our Royal Navy 'kept their hands in'. I seem to remember one just 30 years ago.
Sent in sorrow, not anger....
Engines
I understand that there were a few R.A.F. Pilots flying off the carriers, after a short crash course, for want of a better description, but alas being R.A.F. Harrier Pilots, their know how was blowing stuff up on the ground, which I understand they did satisfactorily. The RN Sea Harrier pilots, I imagine, stuck to their forte, shooting things down, not that the R.A.F. didn't have anyone capable of shooting things down, just that their expertise was doing so with the afore mentioned Lightnings and Phantoms.
Oh, a PS for you, why didn't they station Sea Harriers permanently in the Falklands? Why Phantoms?
FB
