Now here’s an off the wall idea… bin the range requirement as you probably won’t be flying to Afghanistan any time soon, settle on 1,860 odd miles which will cover most of Europe and buy / lease a pair of civilian variants of the
King Air 350 which will be common in spares etc with the Shadows, should be easier to retrofit with secure comms etc as per the Shadow and as they are looking to two extra Shadows add them to that purchase and cheaper than bizjets.…