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Old 12th May 2007, 12:44
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Wiley
 
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Let's hope they use some of the money to buy some simple, hardy kit likely to be of use in the kind of stoush their troops have found themselves fighting (and look like fighting in the foreseeable future) rather than going for what they've gone for too often in the past - high cost, glitzy, all bells and whistles - and therefore, because of cost constraints, get TOO FEW UNITS to be of any damned use should, God forbid, push ever come to shove on a national scale.

And let's hope they don't do what they've been absolute world leaders at in the past - buy high cost, glitzy, all bells and whistles one-offs that no one else in the world uses (and therefore can't be replaced) and to their own specs (that they change three of four times in mid-contract) to make the end result even more costly.
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