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Old 1st Nov 2005, 12:19
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Widger
 
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Riley,

Have it, take it, keep it.
Build the HAS to keep the aircraft in.
Build the new armouries and the technology to operate them from aircraft.
Train the operators, armourers, maintainers, medical staff etc. Deal with the public enquiries from the NIMBY brigade.
Deal with the Enquiry when one of your aircraft drops out of the sky.
Build an aircraft large enough and with enough range to take it all the way there and get back, because the V bombers are long gone.
Train and pay a huge force to guard those bunkers and airfields. Have all that expense.
Then there will be no money left for your tankers and transports, typhoon or bunkers for FCs to play in, or your pay rise.

Yes it will cost a lot of money but a damn sight less than the alternative.

Get real! stop living in the 1950s If we are going to have a Nuclear deterrant then there is only one place with the infrastructure, skills, security and expertees that it can go.

The only debate is, do we replace Trident or not?
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