Just for show
So now we start to learn the truth.
We've had all the headlines, the thrilling pictures of Typhoon aircraft tacking of on after burners, the first female Typhoon combat pilot.
No mention of the fact the only air to air kill has been a trainer aircraft that had just landed by the French.
We know the deployment has been expensive.
The RAF has reminded us how their cuts should be reversed.
But no one mentioned that all this tax payer cash burned has been wasted - until now ( see a list of the failings here ).
The whole exercise seems to have been more about internal UK politics than the job in hand.
OF course the RAF Tornado's have done a useful job, but only with the capacity they so embarrassingly lacked in the first gulf war when even more aged RAF Buccaneers had to be drafted in. ( So not only do we have the current disgrace - but its also an example of lessons not learned in the past from previous failures. )
Just what on earth is going on ? Some should be sacked as its tax payer's money that is being needlessly burned here and I for one would like to see heads roll.
Further: The Reg has an article showing how desperate the RAF was to carry out its show attack and that its target was probably a decommissioned tank anyway. The whole exersie carried out for purposes of UK politics.
We've had all the headlines, the thrilling pictures of Typhoon aircraft tacking of on after burners, the first female Typhoon combat pilot.
No mention of the fact the only air to air kill has been a trainer aircraft that had just landed by the French.
We know the deployment has been expensive.
The RAF has reminded us how their cuts should be reversed.
But no one mentioned that all this tax payer cash burned has been wasted - until now ( see a list of the failings here ).
The whole exercise seems to have been more about internal UK politics than the job in hand.
OF course the RAF Tornado's have done a useful job, but only with the capacity they so embarrassingly lacked in the first gulf war when even more aged RAF Buccaneers had to be drafted in. ( So not only do we have the current disgrace - but its also an example of lessons not learned in the past from previous failures. )
Just what on earth is going on ? Some should be sacked as its tax payer's money that is being needlessly burned here and I for one would like to see heads roll.
Further: The Reg has an article showing how desperate the RAF was to carry out its show attack and that its target was probably a decommissioned tank anyway. The whole exersie carried out for purposes of UK politics.
