It is clearly flash-baiting though, although the Odiham mafia would genuinely have you believe that you can solve all the world's problems with SH. One word answer to that... Libya. I'd suggest that future appetite in the UK for Afghanistan-like ops will be fairly low, but probably much higher for ops of the ilk of Libya, so the future requirement for all aspects of air capability seems clear. That probably counts as a bite, rather than a full blown flash...