Courtney Mil
"UKAD does it all the time."
Everyone knows about UKAD doing it. Few knew about Maritime doing it.
In the Cold War there were regularly pictures in the papers of Bears/Bisons being watched by Phantoms/Lightnings, but how can a photograph depict a Shackleton/Nimrod at work, unless the submarine obligingly surfaces to have its picture taken?
During the war, a photograph of a huge convoy carrying food, oil and tanks to Britain, being escorted by a Sunderland, conveyed to the public just what Coastal did. It is the lack of public knowledge of Coastal and 18 Gp's activities in the Cold War that has resulted in a lack of concern at the loss of MPA. If the public were told that there would in future be no UKAD they would be concerned, simply because of its greater visibility