Seems the civilians (even the sympathetic ones) are less excited about this than the RAF or ex-RAF people.
It's a very small number (not even a proper squadron's worth) of maritime patrol aircraft alongside an undertaking not to scrap some perfectly good not-very-old Typhoons that it would have been absolutely mad to scrap anyway.
At one point there were to be 21 Nimrod MRA4 and 138 F-35. 24 of the latter is barely enough to half-fill one of the two carriers, let alone replacing Tornado as well.
If this is the new level at which we all get very very excited, I'm still a bit depressed.
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