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The point is this. Defence procurement in this country has now degenerated to a level on a par with a Whitehall farce. We have aircraft without wings, attack helos without pilots, we have been building submarines to an unfinished design. We spend a year figuring out how to chop 10,000 tons off our future carriers, only to revert to the original design. The last Shar was delivered in 1999. So what do we do? Take them out of service 5 years later having invested £ms in them. We tell the world that what we really need is strike aircraft not fighters, then (most likely) cancel tranche 3 of Eurofigher which delivers this capability. The list goes on and on. I'm just glad to be out uniform now.