On 12/07/2020 21:58, Tim Streater wrote:


What do we have for ground attack these days? Compared to today, those planes
were simple and cheap. It's all very well having £100M jets that can do
everything, but you can't afford very many of those, or the pilots to fly
them. I keep thinking we need to have a cheap plane for today, that we can
build lots of quickly, which could then be flown by people who can be trained
relatively quickly.


Didn't we get a bit of a nasty shock from Pucaras in the Falklands, even
though we had ground to air missiles.