Paris Attacked!
we had better make up our minds pretty quickly as the only aircraft we have capable of attacking in Syria will be retired from service by 2019. The GR4 is currently doing a stirling job over Iraq but is not permitted to do precisely the same thing a few meters over an imaginary border. The GR4 along with its reconnaissance capability and Paveway/Brimstone is ideally suited to this type of mission.
I have written to my MP on more than 1 occasion highlighting the lunacy of retiring the dependable GR4 without true operational capability and fully proven transfer to Typhoon. I am told that retiring the GR4 and replacing it with the 'F35 which is at the forefront of avaiation technology' is a pragmatic solution' Somehow I do not believe this.............