Originally Posted by Skunkerama
I would have thought that they would be around till atleast 2015. It will take us at least 10-15 years to come up with a new system, scrap it after a lot of money is wasted and then buy the US version for twice the amount it would have cost us with the original.
Sadly true old boy, who remembers AEW Nimrod fiasco ?
IIRC when going through 6FTS at Finingley in 1989, we were told that the final cost of the airframe mod was £1bn each. Not a bad return on investment for a ground trainer that the ab-initio Air Engineers used to start up and shut down.
...and of course we eventually bought the E3 that had been offered to us ten years earlier.
Back to my original point, does anyone know if still have to have the authority of the US President (and considering the mental stability of the baboon who currently holds that office, is this a wise thing), before we can light the blue touch paper on Trident ?