N-a-B,
Fascinating - and appalling! No surprise that "Evidence Based Policy" has been binned in favour of "Policy Based Evidence", however.
If the costs are sufficiently similar, then we should be able - and Ministers should demand - the full trade off calculations. If the answer is that we want to give a large bung to RR, then let's at least be honest about it.
As it is, we stand to spend the best part of £4bn on CVF + substandard airwing which will then be tasked to deliver what it isn't designed to, solely because of the STOVL option. Pathetic!
Navaleye
IIRC V-22 is unpressurised - is this true? If so, it would presumably be little better than a helicopter based solution.
S41