NAO Report.
Following on from The Times reports on defence expenditure (See old thread) Deborah Haynes reporting on the NAO report in The Times 1 Feb;
'Military faces £21B funding gap'
'Plan unaffordable and unrealistic’
'The MoD simply does not have enough money to buy all the equipment it says it needs'
Pretty uncomfortable reading for Hammond who claimed to have sorted the budget and Fallon who 'increased spending'. I'm not sure where this leaves us? Defence hasn't made the savings and the Govt has cooked the books. More salami slicing or capability gaps? I'm going for gaps, kick as much into the long grass as possible. P8 delayed, F35 delayed?
Last edited by Chinny Crewman; 31st Jan 2018 at 21:30.