Hi crab - the 70% comes from both the historic funding norms (and both Depts agreed not to challenge this norm otherwise neither would move forward with a new programme) - and the top level responsibility that placed aero rescue on the MoD (rememebering that its not just rotary that the MoD contributes to that, plus the ongoing requirment to have deployed mil SAR capability - hence MoD sees a need for long term investment in the UK SAR force. We all know too that numbers notwithstanding (ie 66) - the money also pays for continued good
PR for the mil. OK - we can argue (quite rightly) about whether its the best Value for Money route thats been chosen - but for sure its the only game in town at the moment. By the way - have you seen the post on Mil A'crew saying SAR-H has been scrubbed - who'e that provocative gentleman then?
Cheers
TS
