People keep stating worse case senarios like the UK going up against a top flight opponent in a high intensity war and needing stealth to get through their large state of the art air defence networks. It is like saying we have to have SLBMs to defend against other peoples SLBM/ICBM yet no one has used a nuclear weapon since 1945.
Maybe nobody has used one because of the principle of deterrence? :rolleyes:
Yes they is the very smallest of chances we will fight a high intensity war in the next 25 years but then again the Martians might invade or the US invade Canada. Should we be spending money in case these events come to pass as well.
It’s perfectly reasonable to assume that world events might throw up something unexpected that changes the course of things entirely. Look at 9/11. On 10th September 2001, there might have seemed a case for massively downgrading all the armed forces in the West; after all, the cold war had been won and there were no threats that wouldn’t take years to develop…….or where there?
In the 1920s we thought there would be no future wars in Europe and we know how that went.
I’m not saying that we should become out and out militarists, but developing an aircraft that allows us to take on the best, should we need to, is just prudent, its and insurance policy you don’t want to have to use. Would you rather need them and not have them?
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