Why the raf can’t deliver the punch cameron wants in syria
 

Have I got time to pop out for some popcorn?

This one is just as good :ok:

Sadly one is not able to post comments on the website. Probably a little scared his views would be revealed for the tripe they are.

Good read, well up there with Dale Brown, or is that doing Dale a disservice?

I needed a laugh, thanks for posting. I could question his logic line by line, but I think it sufficient merely to note that the RAF's contribution is numerically small but still greater than the Navy's.

One question did spring to mind reading his article though. He labels himself, or is labelled in the article an 'air ace'. I always thought the criteria for 'Ace' status was 5 kills and yet his own Wiki entry with his citation only notes 3; has the criteria been watered down or is he just a playing Walt?

Mr.Ward's almost pathological hatred of the RAF is quite disturbing, it really must be eating away at him constantly, to enable him to come up with such diatribes... :uhoh:

-RP

Perhaps we shoukd refurbish that Vulcan and the ones in museums
Pity that is not possible.

Lord Haw Haw lives

I would like to hazard the opinion that he has a point. Several in fact.

Yes of course he has a point. But these are skewed due to his, as RP says, pathological hatred of the RAF. I believe he is right when he says the RN should have a nuclear-powered carrier force, that the carriers should be equipped with catapults and arrestor gear, that the Air Wing should include strike, fixed wing AEW, COD, AAR capability etc. He ignores the fact that all this was ditched by the Naval Staff.

I also think he still thinks of the world in terms of Mk1 Golf GTi's, Concorde, Kerry Packers cricket circus and women with big hair, shoulder pads and leg warmers.

What's wrong with that then?

Hairy legs as in the men-only Navy?

Sharkey relaxing as he remembers the good old days
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Was ex Commnader Ward an RAF reject and has held a grudge ever since?

Bending the truth a little to serve your own argument I can stomach but outright lies.....dishonourable at best.

Shame on ex-Lt Cdr Ward.....again!

What a lot of pre amble purely in order to be able to say the last two sentences.

I guess we have all got used to it, but yes it is rather dishonourable to behave in the way he does. It must be incredibly embarrassing for his family.

... and the best person he can get to publish his diatribe is a fiction writer and war-gamer. :hmm:

Civvy perspective:

I assume both Tornado and Typhoon have some degree of EW capability that isn't entirely public.

Pablo Mason's book mentions some degree of apprehension during Gulf 1 at the technique required to use JP-233. Hadn't realised the level of unhappiness was quite as severe as Ward makes out.

Understood it was widely felt that Harrier was pretty crap at CAS too due to lack of guns.

Fair to call current Tornado obsolete?

P

Wonder if it grates that he has the Air Force Cross?