What a forlorn hope for accuracy from the media.
Today's Daily Telegraph - letter from David Wragg, author, Jane's Air Forces of the World.
Original plan 38 Nimrods - true.
Now only 14 in service - may be true
Only 12 MR3 to enter service.
MR3?
What about the additional 8 XZ series to bring the fleet up to 46?
Or the 11 withdrawn to the AEW programme.
Or the one that had its sting removed and windows blanked off?
On my maths that leaves 17 Mk 2.