I worked with the A/SAS for a bit and yep, they are much like our guys-small but mighty.....they used to call our guys "crazy"......
It would be like an enemy trying to come into either of our countries and invade it....they had better have a miraculous supply line...just the fuel alone would be staggering not to mention trying to take and hold a city the size of LA would take an entire military force...just to do that....imagine trying to even take New York....and holding it would be impossible...
That's why nukes became so popular...
We built an aircraft called the 111 Ardvark. It was a multirole supersonic wicked platform. It had lots of tech. Ahead of its time by decades.
It was the chosen platform for the development of what we know as smart bombs. It also had a Terrian Following Radar that was it's secret sauce. You could set it at 250' hard ride and it would outfly the crews digestive system with ease.
So those crazy bastards wanted a different variant of it. Drop the smart bomb system. We can manage that. Take out all of the Inertial and guidance tech. We will keep the TFR. But we want it to go as low as 50'. Keep the swing wings.
It weighed about 15,000 lbs less.
And we invited them to a NATO bombing competition in Scotland. They flew those from Australia to Europe with Maps and compasses. And refueled all along the way using our support aircraft. They don't fly it anywhere besides Australia so that was all like never done by them stuff.
Got there. To compete with our version of the same plane, plus the brand spanking new at the time F-16. The Brits, The Germans, and the Swedes. And they were all practicing for weeks for this competition. The Aussies had never seen the geography before getting there.
Those crazy bastids were flying TFR 100' hard rides at supersonic speeds. They were coming back with bits and pieces of vegetation, flying faster and lower than everyone and hitting targets by windage and human calculation skills.
The "rules" were no one was to exceed Mach since the defenders couldn't go faster than Mach. It was also against NATO rules over land The Swedes were the intercept teams. They got points for intercepting. They ran grids. They always engaged to a greater or lesser degree based on weather, location and skills.
The Aussies would come back and get chewed out for breaking the rules. They were doing Mach 1.5 like it was cruise control. The Swedes we're like Holy Hell they flew under us going so fast we were never going to even get a chance at vectoring to them.
The Aussies would laugh and say....Wait you Blokes think war should have rules!" Mate intercept us or get out of the way, we got Pubs to visit.
We were like where the hell are they getting parts of plants on them. They'd buzz the sheep pastures when they were getting bored.....lol. They'd go "Yeah we might have cut our pull ups over the trees a little close there a few times. And umm You lot might be getting some angry farmers calling. I think we may have hit our afterburners a little to close to some sheep once or twice.
Some of THE best pilots the world never heard about.
They were an amazingly fun group to work with.