Originally Posted by 500N
Re the UK sending an aircraft, the thing is, isn't that why you have SAR areas ?
Well, no poo Poirot; exactly. Do you want to explain that to the LAA?
And correct me if I am wrong but isn't it a boat that is required, not an aircraft ?
What a remarkably good point; but you need a rather large number of hulls in the water to sweep that area. Remind me, would any one of 19 already committed RN DD/FFs be ready at the drop of a hat?
Correct me if I'm wrong but, in my limited fish head experience, success is more likely if you identify a likely contact from the air to be investigated by a ship than by doing it just with a ship.
The point I was forlornly trying to make is that we don't now have the capability irrespective of who's bloody SAR area it is.