Originally Posted by
212man
Not 155, but 365 N3 does/can have them. I agree that it seemed a spectacularly poor choice of spend, when they could have bought new 725s for a similar cost!
Usually different budgets and processes. New aircraft requires a tender process. Modifying existing doesn’t.
UK not the only military I know of who have done this for budgetary reasons and paid twice as much as new.
For once, not the OEMs fault the system is as it is.