As to that £1m per day absurdity, just how much do you think provision of 14 aircraft, training, maintenance and servicing, upgrades, a new hangar and squadron accommodation, simulator and airworthiness provision would have actually cost the MoD? It would have been a fortune and simply was not available at the time as up front money.
Well,
pr00ne, the MoD seemed to have found the money for the same shopping list for the 22 x A400M at Brize.......
As it's physically impossible for the current Voyager to conduct boom AAR, notwithstanding the contract clause what would be your solution to provide P-7, P-8A, Rivet Joint, C-17 and potentially F-35A with AAR support?