The delays and frustrations facing this programme are just another example of how underfunded European nations cannot get their act together in a reasonable time frame to collaborate on military aircraft programmes.. .. .The A400M looks good on paper - it won't do many things that the C-17 has now been doing for years, but it'll do many more things than the C130 will. Let's hope that the A400M does go ahead - because at least then it won't be such a political hot potato should the A330 tanker project be binned in favour of the future tanker aircraft already chosen by Italy, Japan and the USA - the Boeing 767.. .. .How's that other European disgrace for a fighter aircraft coming along? On budget and on time is it.....??