I would like to know where all these extra personnel will come from that are willing and able to pass SF selection - they are called 'special' for a reason or are we going to lower the bar?
As for the RPAS. I think this will be clever politicking. Project SCAVENGER has been on the cards for a while and is likely to be a non-UOR certified MQ-9 Reaper buy. What I suspect will happen is that we will announce the buy of SCAVENGER and run on the UOR for a while, thus increasing the numbers. I think Tornado will run on to planned OSD as the full procurement of SCAVENGER will overlap. I also think that the Taranis capability demonstrator will deliver GR4s long range strategic capability in the future (probably a slightly bigger version of the demonstrator).
There, that's my crystal ball view. Let's see how it shapes up.
LJ