TT
Not intending to 'slag off' anything, simply commenting on factual events that have occurred and the consequent aftermath. It is not the fate of a specific airframe that wholly concerns me, it is more the ongoing loss/reduction of capabilities within UK plc.
The clip ref the DSA was included since, to me, the words typified the concentration on 'disposal' now so prevalent within the MOD.
Comments from XV208 SNOOPY above indicate some of the reasons why this particular situation has, to many of us, a very familiar 'feel' about it.
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