DEL Mode: Thank you, but it is an UK institition and right to blame everything on BAES.
The Swinging Monkey:
Accept some of what you say, but am not going to argue the point. Astor/Chinook/Hercules/Apache/Merlin/Lynx/Puma none of these has anything to do with BAES, so it is not just them that 'does the same thing'.
I accept that it is not black and white with any large and changing project and throughout history it has allways been so, the bottom line is that the ones responsible are still placed in the Government/MOD and whoever people want to throw stones at it is not helping the guys that we all want to help at the sharp end they are all that matter.