Reports into the latest grounding talk about a "23 aircraft Nimrod fleet".
Others talk about 15 Nimrods being based at Kinloss, though under NISC 2 aren't there supposed to be 16, to generate 10?
(See
http://www.baesystems.com/Newsroom/N...306200513.html)
The Fighting 51st obviously have three, and a spare MR2. (Are they actually flying XV246, or is it literally a spare?)
Or are we still midway between NISC 1 (21 to generate 12) and NISC 2, and are we talking about 15 at Kinloss, four deployed (seems more than you'd expect) and the Waddington aircraft, which would add up to 23?