Ho Ho! Yet another MoD cock up. I first joined in 1964 and had my first experience of military procurement when Their Airships bought some Beagle light aircraft (can't remeber the exact type) to ferry V-bomber crews about. By the time they had mucked about with the basic aeroplane it couldn't carry a full Victor crew. And so it has continued - Cossor 787, Argosy, Linesman/Mediator to name a few.
What alarms me is who dreamt up the idea of automatic aircraft tracking? If it was ITT, what idiot at MoD accepted the idea? If it was part of the MoD specification, what clown came up with such a cock-eyed scheme? Probably some jumped-up, over-promoted brown-noser who never got the hang of the servos. I bet a hundred smackers nobody took the trouble of asking the guys and gals at the coal face who have to use the kit. Yawn !!!! Nothing ever changes.