>> Mdf said it all for me, the thing would get blown out of the sky
>> if it ever came up against a proper airforce in true wartime conditions... Waste of
>> money.
>>
>> 'Bout time the MOD joined the real world regarding costs instead of living in cloud
>> cuckoo land.
>>
Yes.
Any country which managed to order and build Challenger tanks after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet threat in Western Europe has a MOD which is living in the past and unable to see beyond its nose.
See also the European Joint Strike Fighter.. and modern stealth destroyers costing over £1 billion each.
I ask you . £1 billion for a destroyer... Crazy. Makes no economic or military sense. As a result we ordered two aircraft carriers and not enough destroyers to defend it.
Whilst I accept the politicians are to blame to an extent, I see no sign of any senior military people resigning over these basic issues.
And I mean basic: the procurement policy ensures we are basically spreading a budget too thinly and achieving nothing.
When you have limited means you concentarte of doing a few things well rather than everything badly. That's simple common sense and elementary thinking. The MOD don't do common sense.
As for anyone attempting to persuade me Nimrod is world beating...!!!!!!!!!
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