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Originally Posted by blackthorn
After scrapping the perfectly good updated Nimrods, someones noticed that we dont have any ASW cover. We might have to buy the P8 which is ok but we had something in place already. What a waste of money, no logic to it at all.
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No logic to it? The Nimrods, while they were versatile planes, and while they had been refitted and upgrade, they were over 40 years old.
Do you really want to trust our country's defence to a plane with a 40 year old airframe?
It may even be *cheaper* to replace it due to increasing maintenance costs.