Shades of the AEW3 perhaps? Just a snippet from House of Commons Defence Select Committee report (mainly slagging Astute and the T45)
Taxpayers face £500m bill for BAE projects
............The select committee also criticised delays on the Nimrod project, which has risen in cost from £2.8 billion to £3.5 billion and is running about six years behind schedule. The MPs have asked the MoD to review Nimrod and consider whether an alternative to the BAE-built aircraft could be bought...........
MOD Annual Report and Accounts 2006-07
Paragraph 57: ....The Autumn Performance Report also states that the “major programme showing cost growth at present continues to be Nimrod”....
Paragraph 60: .....On the cost increase on the Nimrod MRA4 aircraft programme, Mr Jeffrey said that it was “certainly giving rise to in-year pressure this year”. He told us that it was the “one significant area that we are having to attend to now”. We asked whether, given the problems on the Nimrod MRA4 programmes, consideration should be given to an alternative solution. Mr Jeffrey considered that “the current programme is seen as a more forward looking one than the question would imply”.....