UK JSF. Why?
Dave will provide some level of OCA and DCA in addition to the strike role. Some people throughout MOD appear to be unaware that there are other high-value units in the Fleet besides the carrier (LPD, LPH, LSD(A), the RFA store ships, the Ro-Ro shipping). All of these require some form of AD while operating or transiting in a high-threat area and the best way of doing that is using manned a/c - particularly where RoE may be constrained - so Fleet AD is far from a self-licking lollipop.
No-one suggests that Typhoon only does AD, why should Dave only do strike? As for the SRO comments - that's more likely to be 4 postured for DCA on an alert basis at any one time. You can veer and haul around that number depending on threat and/or phase of campaign. Whether Dave is the optimum balance of capability between air to air and air to mud is a different question. However, it is the only aircraft in development that will do both to a degree and not be twenty years old on service entry.........
No-one suggests that Typhoon only does AD, why should Dave only do strike? As for the SRO comments - that's more likely to be 4 postured for DCA on an alert basis at any one time. You can veer and haul around that number depending on threat and/or phase of campaign. Whether Dave is the optimum balance of capability between air to air and air to mud is a different question. However, it is the only aircraft in development that will do both to a degree and not be twenty years old on service entry.........
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Iraq has changed the moral playground to such an extent that that the UK and France know that that an EU with strike capability is the only future.
Says a Frenchperson.
Says a Frenchperson.
