CM:-
Or as some of us keep saying, just look out of the window.
Rest assured that crews who are protected with CWS are still required to do so, and are liable to get an unpleasant and possibly final surprise if they do not.
So as noted so many times past, RAF crews can take the blame solely for anything untoward, no matter how the MOD and the Services have failed them with duff or non-existent kit. Be it positively dangerous FADECs, illegal RTS's, unresolved UFCM's, dry bays that aren't, IFFs that fail unsafe, Strobe Lights that blind, and Fuel Tanks that explode on receiving a small arms hit; hang the guilty barstewards if by chance they survive!
You don't happen to sport a very sporting moustache and have a famous WW1 General as a distant relative by any chance? Name of Mel... something or other? Meh!
No one is suggesting that going to war is safe. That is palpable nonsense, but the RAF has a vested interest in making itself as safe as it can be subject to training when it is not at war, so that as much of it and its crews survive for when it does go to war. If training for war is incompatible with CWS then there is a case for inhibiting it under certain conditions. There is not a case for therefore not fitting it, other than protecting the 6 o'clock of those who have obstructed in the past. That case is illegal, immoral, and the very reason that UK Military Air Safety is now in crisis mode.