One shouldn't be asking the question of ASTOR why?
The correct question is ASTOR why not?
The answer is of course, because if we didn't spend lots of lovely money on shiny, noisy airplanes then the idiots who slag us off on ARRSE would go out and buy another utterly useless radio system.
Much better we spend the tax revenue on aircraft that don't work cause even then you can still put them into the Waddington airshow and charge Jo Public £15 a pop to look at it. No ones going to pay that sort of money to see a static show of radios are they!!
That's that one put to bed.
Regards and long live Dis..............astor
R&R