What a load of twaddle.......You cannot send an aircraft that isn't in front line service yet to the Gulf. It really is as simple as that.
As for buying up a shed load of Cobra's from the US...do you really think they have a bunch of those things sitting on a dockside awaiting shipment to whoever might bid for them.
Finally why rag the QHI's who are busy as ten men learning to fly the machine efficiently in order to train the first line pilots, of which I might add, there is no shortage!