Originally Posted by WEBF
I still think that the Government could make this into a success story, by leasing a few AV8Bs from the US
Why would we want to do that? We only just scrapped the things. The way things are at the moment we don't need them for ops. Har can't do anything as well as Tornado or Typhoon, except use short runways and we haven't got much in that way now. Probably never will.
No, why take on all the support expense, aircrew and groundcrew, logs, etc, just on the off chance that we might, one day, get a totally different jumping bean?
Apart from anything else, it took the RAF decades finally to destroy FAA fixed wing, hardly likely to help get it back now.