The UK currently employs civilian aviation companies to patrol the waters off our islands. Border patrol, customs, fishery protection and oil spill response are all tasks undertaken by civilians
Excellent - so that is the short-medium range CIVILIAN requirement covered
- now all we need to cover is the MILITARY (and possibly long-range civilian) requirement. That includes finding, fixing and FINISHing potential targets (including submarines). Globally. Something that the civvies cannot and do not do.
For long range ASW? Then there is the reason we don't have any.
Really? And your experise in being able to comment on that is.....? You have obviously missed the global proliferation of submarines then.
Random Blah. If you mean:
You’ll use specialist skills like radar surveillance and submarine tracking as one of the aircrew, as well as helping transport passengers and freight on operations.
What odds would you give me on that NOT having been updated since we deleted MR2/MRA4???
