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Getting away from the spending part of it the impact can be a lot more noticeable on the ground these chinooks were specifically ordered for special forces operations and we are now using chinooks not so well suited to do that role which involves more risk for the lads out there doing the job.
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Quite. So would not invading Iraq, of course, since there are helicopters there which could be much better used in Afghanistan. It's bad enough fighting one war with inadequate equipment, starting a second one without fixing the logistics for the first one and it being guaranteed to make the first one worth is...
Well, you know my views on Tony Blair, and they're not fit for public consumption. Sanctimonious ******.
SMG - I'm not sure it's even cost that matters to civil servants, although there are plenty of examples of where cost cutting has led to greater cost in the long run due to inadequate kit, but in the case of Merlin helicopters (and going back a bit the Navy's Phantoms) rejigging things to keep more jobs in the UK costs more and results in inadequate kit. Why can't we just tell BAE that in future they either deliver to cost or we go abroad? That's supposed to be the way markets work, after all.