Am I missing something? Now I'm not a C17 expert but from afar it looks like this:
1. RAF desperately needs more airlift.
2. MOD makes surprisingly quick decision to lease C17s, oreders them and gets them.
3. C17s arrive and are so useful we massively overfly the projected hours and in fact decide we need another one.
Isnt this a good thing? Or were we horribly manipulated by those evil Yanks?
Oh and I guess:
4. NATO sees the above, is also massively short of airlift and decide to do something similar (except buy straight away).
I'm struggling to see the negatives here.
