J, I concede about the Caribbean but I didn't exclude the Straits (sic), but back to the other point - numbers.
The numbers of MR2 were adequate; the maximum potentially affordable numbers of a replacement would be sufficient for one or the other.
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Jayland, quite, I ignored that point. I suppose the point really is a single figure buy even worthwhile? I know other air forces have very few but then they don't have out strategic ambitions.
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