Originally Posted by
racedo
Issue is one has been around for a while while another is just starting and will continue to use up defence budget for decades to come. Equipping both including acquiring tankers has used up £20 billion and expect cost of £1 billion a year without 10 year maintenance or anything else, whole life cost is £100 billion that is assumming they even get to that.
Ok, not even dart-throwing figures, just completely random made up numbers, chucking in whatever other platforms you can think of. Marvelous.