Neptune
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1) I accept I was wrong on the AEW&C issue, I wasn't aware they had entered service yet.
2) Turkey has cruise missiles too, ok? And what exactly is turkey going to do with them? Fire upon RAF Akrotiri? Waste of time with land based Rapier point missile defence systems and type 45 destroyers in the area! I would expect the UK to achieve a 100% kill rate v any Turkish cruise missile. Not to mention any F-16 operating anywhere near Cyprus would be lucky to still be alive... I cannot see any chance of an F-16 surviving Typhoons and type 45 air defence destroyers!!! The British on the other hand would be able to use their Tomahawk cruise missiles (2,000+ km range) and Storm-shadow cruise missiles (250+ km range) with deadly effect. I doubt Turkey would have any ships anywhere near Cyprus once the Royal Navy arrives and Phalanx CIWS, Sea Sparrow and ESSM do not have the ranges necessary to shoot down cruise missiles. ESSM would be the only system with any chance of taking down a cruise missile (and even then the chance is very remote)... ESSM could only engage the cruise missile during its terminal phase, allowing literally only a couple of seconds for ESSM to respond. A very tall order indeed and success rate is so low Britain wouldn't even take it into consideration. Therefore I stress again, the UKs strategic use of Cruise missiles would be deadly for Turkey as Turkey has no real defences in place.
3) Wrong, there is no standard NATO training for pilots, your statement is absurd. According to the IISS RAF pilots receive significantly more flight hours per year than their Turkish counterparts. Plus RAF pilots have lots of recent operational experience. For these two reasons alone I would back an RAF pilot any day.
4) Some British Army regiments wear red tunics, so do some of our Canadian regiments. The redcoat days are far from over Anyway I agree the USA possesses the only armed force with full power projection capabilities and the ability to topple pretty much any nation on earth (with the exception of Russia and China)... however such a force is unnecessary against a 3rd rate nation like Turkey... plus our scenario only involves a fight for Cyprus, not to blitz all of Turkey lol
5) Just because you placed some text in caps doesn't make it true. Britain is superior in terms of air force, regardless of how your simple brain cannot process this information. Yes agreed Britain is superior in terms of Naval and land based power.
6) "as we saw in Exercise Anatolian Eagle" "as we saw" OK, this is a good one. The RAF hasn't participated in an Anatolian Eagle exercise since 2009. The unofficial "reports" of Pakistani pilots scoring kills on RAF Typhoons were for the 2011 AE exercise, yet the RAF as we have already established were never even present! You are surely an idiot if you believe phantom reports and even more so if you quote them in an argument heheh. But sure if you want to believe that a watered down export variant of the F-16 is superior to the Typhoon then be my guess!
7) No, I am not British, but that still does not mean I shan't give voice to their armed forces being capable, same goes for the French and Russians. I am not a Turk hater, I just don't care for them - but I do eat Turkey often!
there aren't any type 45's stationed at Cyprus or close to it yet. Yes it was a Pakistani guy who shot it down but with a turkish F-16. If you think that PAF pilots are better than us (with all respects), you're an idiot. And tell what is and 3rd rated nation? I also bet you're not a real Canadian at all. You're not british. But I can say you that turkey and uk has a long history of defence agreements...etc. You can't say that I don't care. Giving turkey as a weak (!) example makes you a trolly Turk hater. You know what. I ain't give a damn about your real country. Do think that you can know it better while I'm here, i have a past in the military but you're in canada far away from your real home. You think we're fool? NEITHER YOU PUT IT INSIDE YOUR EMPTY BRAIN OR NOT; TURKEY IS MORE POWERFUL THAN RAF IN AIR BRANCH ALTHOUGH UK IS OUR ALLY. Now find yourself a girl that you can rely on.