That has never happened in the history of RAF procurement - why should they start now?
We would have been flying Blackhawks since the 80's if we had been given what we needed.
You have a valid point as politics/Tarzan/Mace all contributed to what-should-have-happened-but-did-not.
One of my thermodynamics lecturers worked at RR before his PhD worked at Rolls-Royce Leavesden and did a few test flights with G-RRTM (only S-70 on CAA register)
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