Whilst reading the UK is the 4th largest military thread I thought I would have a look how the RAF compares
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace...orces-2013.pdf
Assuming it is correct I find it interesting reading.
It suggests the RAF is the 10th largest air force.
Flying in the face of the perceived wisdom that the RAF is just a fast jet club I see that Turkey (in 10th place for number of combat aircraft) has 331 fast jets so I wonder how far we are down the list as we have 177 fast jets. France has about 290 in fast jets in service. Germany, Greece and Italy all have more than we do!
In fact it seems to me the ratio of combat to support/training types is far too low.
Thoughts?