STH
Don't get me started on GEMS - I find that many VSOs don't like them as it's "not invented here". The disdain I saw a SNCO's GEMS rejected to solve the current basket case that is Air Cadet gliding, was just lamentable. We saw this as well when we tried to start fitting stuff to Tornado like we did on the Jag in the mid-nineties when it became a 'mature airframe'.
Until we fix the problem that we have the 5th biggest defence budget but the 9th strongest military (taken from the Military Strength Index - where the factors under consideration for military strength and their total weights are: number of active personnel in the army (5%), tanks (10%), attack helicopters (15%), aircraft (20%), aircraft carriers (25%), and submarines (25%)) then we have a
significant problem with our own military. Too many vested interests and too much nepotism.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/these-...9/#17-poland-4
LJ