Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Nothing wrong withe policy when the USSR had just collapsed - but, like the 10 year rule between the wars, these things tend to become entrenched as it means you have to suddenly start spending money when you reverse them.
There is everything wrong with driving a coach and horses through regulations and procedures that were developed over decades to ensure that whatever was put into service was fit for use and, in the case of military aviation, airworthy. The deliberate sabotage of those regulations by RAF VSOs that Tuc alludes to wasn't for the purpose of harvesting a Peace Dividend but to cover up the incompetence of those same RAF VSOs and their desperate need to raid ring-fenced Air Safety budgets to fund the results of that incompetence. Their cover up has in turn been continued to this day by succeeding generations of VSOs in order to protect the reputation of the Star Chamber. As a result, airworthiness related fatal accidents continue and UK Military Air Power remains compromised. There is everything wrong with that I would suggest.