Originally Posted by
GrahamO
But was utterly unaffordable after decades of mis-steps, mismanagement and failure by the MoD.
The planned mis-steps and mismanagement, and inevitable failure and the precise reasons, were identified and notified long before the MRA4 contract was let.
The same issues afflicted a sister programme, upon which MRA4 relied, but which was delivered ahead of time, under cost, and to a better spec.
What was the single differentiating factor? The latter programme completely ignored the directives of a 1, 2 and 4 Star. The 4 Star never did learn that when he was asked to sign approval to proceed to development, 5 production sets of avionics had already been delivered!