THe MOD live in a world where effectively money grew on trees and cost overruns never meant anything else had to be cut.
Most of the former Admirals/Generals complaining were to blame for it.
The real world where money is tight means that cost overruns somewhere mean cuts elsewhere.
As for Afghanistan, anyone who thinks we will make any difference to losing that war belives their own propaganda.
If Nimrod had to be seriously used in a war, it would be shot down in 5 minutes. It depends 100% on air superiority. We cannot dleiver that without the US. So if the US don't support us we don't fight.
Waste of space and a credit to the incompetence of the MOD and the kast 20 years of Defence politicians,,,
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