topman wrote:Thanks for the bit more detail. When they are back at Marham for 6 months would they be doing any more detachments in the year
If 20 jets and there crews return from a 6 or 9 month carrier deployment there would be leave and maintenance to be carried out so unless 2 Sqn's are sharing jets it would be unlikely the jets would deploy again outside training needs
topman wrote:When you say land based training what do you mean?
I'm just trying to get an idea of what and why people come up with these sorts of numbers. Some ideas seem vague, the what but not the why or some sort of detail.
I know you are more clued up than you are making out however I will play along.
Land based strike is aircraft operating from land bases. Carrier based strike is aircraft operating from ships at sea. At this time the US , France , China , Russia when operating strike operation from there carriers do so with 20 to 40 jets so when a UK carrier is carrying out the same type of operation it will need to carry between 20 and 36 jets to generate sortie rates