The modern aside praises the RAF's operation of the P-8 and makes no criticism of current crews or performance. It offers a personal preference for making the aircraft a joint asset shared with the Royal Navy. Two services would then have institutional reasons to argue for more aircraft and protect the mission's resources. The example translates the interwar discussion into a modern procurement lesson about bureaucratic constituencies. It is an advocacy argument rather than a claim that joint ownership automatically guarantees a larger fleet.
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Joint P-8 ownership as a case for stronger advocacy
A modern aside favors joint RAF-Royal Navy ownership of the P-8 so that two services have incentives to argue for maritime-patrol capacity.