visionary: by all means join the general forum, but offer us a little of your background before you wade in with both barrells. Nick has shown his cards from the outset...do him the same courtesy?
The ONLY people who defend the EH101 are those (non military) with a vested interest in them, because it is the biggest box of bombs the UK forces have ever had the misfortune to inherit...NO-ONE wants it, but there's too much riding on it to 'burn the project'.
How many other more promising projects have been put on hold or scrapped to keep the Merlin airborne???
The president would have to be stark raving mad to buy one!