Originally Posted by
Asturias56
[color=#000000]" And, TBH, the experience of "upgrading " old kit sounds great but has led to some of the worst cost overruns we'v ever seen
And some glittering successes despite huge complexity, suggesting it is not the act of upgrading per se, but that there just might be some people who know how to do it, and some who don't.
RMPA/Nimrod 2000/Nimrod MRA4 is rightly held up as a prime example, but it is never mentioned that there was a sister programme which 'led' on key areas, and delivered ahead of time, under cost and to a better spec. That programme succeed by following some basic rules. Nimrod didn't. A solution emerges....