Yep know all about the priorities list, just suggesting that with a reduction in fast-jet ac requiring operational freedom and with the further encroachment of CAS east over the top of Cottesmore, north over the top of Lakenheath etc, there's less need for area radar as it stands today. As civil ac become a higher % within the traffic mix and with a lot of the class G going, why have area radar as it now stands? It will certainly involve a change in the way that our civil ATCO brethren train and operate but if it's cheaper for the military to do and civil get the kickback of more CAS I'm sure that enough of the decision makers (notice not necessarily operators) will be happy.