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Originally Posted by SMG
Nimrod should have been axed years ago, along with the crusty idiots in the Mod who decided it would be better value than the yanks airborne early warning system, the cuts need to be in the Mod where the rot is. When I think of the billions these Muppet's wasted on crap equipment it makes my blood boil.
When your forces need a particular piece of equipment, & its available to buy over the counter, only a complete idiot would opt for a different & inadequate version, then spend more billions trying to get the thing to work.
The Mod is as bad as the NHS for buying crap, then spending more in a vain attempt to get it to work.
I would double the number to 50.000 civil servants, & leave the forces alone.
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I would like to know what exactly we may have lost by scrapping Nimrod - there must have been some reason for developing an ELINT system exclusive of that provided by the USA .
As I understand it the problems with the MRA4 were more to do with the airframe than the systems deployment.
Those systems will now, presumably, be deployed via the Sentinel R1 operating out of RAF Waddington.
As for the aircraft carriers, there seems little point, to me, developing one to handle catapult assisted take off & landings & the other to rely on VTOL aircraft - the VTOL option relies on US development now the Harrier is to be scrapped - if the US is late delivering the F35B, or cancels it, this variant of the ship is going to be severely compromised - the best option is to make both of them catapult capable, imo.