Again, the RAF is not flush with WSOPs. Too many were redunded, recruiting is slow, and the sensor pipeline is only now sputtering into life for the first time since I and others closed it down in 2010. Even if another ISR fleet is chopped through SDSR, it will still be a stretch to man 5? 8? 12? P-8 (according to various rumours here)
That aircraft needs 4 WSOp (and a WSO bien sur) per crew. Sentinel Shadow or Reaper need 1 each. Maybe if all 3 fleets go, we could man the P-8.
Last edited by camelspyyder; 10th Jun 2015 at 21:25.