The real issue about all of this is that 16 Air Mobile, equipped
with attack helicopters and enough heli-lift capacity to deploy
and support battalion plus sized air-mobile units would be a
significantly useful item in many combat situations.
Who runs it is irrelevant if UK-plc can't support a unit
of this type of a sensible size.
Remember 1940, the Germans had fewer and worse tanks
than the French or British...what differed was how they
used them, concentrated with support doctrine that allowed
them to make a difference as against the penny packets
of the allies.
I'm certain you can see the analogy,
-- Andrew