expected pointless digs and attempted humour, so can we now address the question?
and then you put
an Air Vice Marshall per airframe.........
and follow it up with
Lets have some serious thought out answers.
Make up your mind!!!
Of course the question can be asked why are the AAC flying RW. In a couple of years how many operational Apache and Wildcat will they have? Not that many. That's not a dig, purely pointing out that the numbers are not that great.
RAF should operate helicopters whose only task is to support the army
Is it indeed??? Of course the main customer is the army but far from the only one.
failed attempt to keep the Apache for the Airforce much later
How could the RAF keep something that was not theirs? The Apache was always destined for the AAC.
But in the year 2014 it makes no sense anymore.
Why is that? Surely in the cash strapped times RW could form 3 Group RAF and dispense with JHC therefore reducing the size of the HQ and stream lining the recruitment and training process?
The usual army arguement is that a soldier better understands the battleground, well surely if you can train a soldier to fly it's not beyond the wit of man to teach a skilled RAF pilot a bit about land manoeuvre? Maybe the AAC might even understand air manoeuvre one day too.
I assume your next question will be along the lines of why dont the RAF have SNCO pilots????
