Which safety systems and military kit were deleted? Likewise what crash and ditch structure?
There never was a cabin liner - they were all hand stitched by an old dear in Greeneville as I recall, and the cockpit trim was because the person ordering it was presented with a standard set of options for a Global and asked ‘well what does it come with, we’ll have that!’ Neither anything to do with weight!
It is still so shabby because since the first SDSR in 2010 the axe has been hovering over Sentinel and no money made available..
I sat next between the designer of the probe and the original RAF TP, both were adamant the probe was designed, viable and doable, it was only deleted to save the money and because the small crew could not sustain extended missions.
The Globaleye is probably less capable than the wedgetail (only 7 mission crew) but is also probably cheaper, and already assembled in the U.K.....hmmm...