Careful DA4 you might get the typo police on to you.
Wonder what the MRA4 team are making of all this. Let's second guess shall we. Could be that the June 09 target is the paper exercise, and implementation/embodiment is shelved because someone decides to wait for MRA4. It will be diluted to a task to ensure the same/equivalent recs are in MRA4. I am reliably informed that a 6 month slip doesn't happen in a few weeks on this type of work. It's largely a case of manhours, not materiel, so it's easier to plan, cost, schedule accurately. That's why we were sure it couldn't be done - MoD and Industry don't have the capacity as MoD ditched the concept of retaining flexibility about 15 years ago. "no real surprise - people who've done this for fun for years knew it was impossible to repair years of neglect in a few months".
Before anyone has a go for second guessing, think again, our predictions have been far more accurate than anything MoD/RAF have offered to date.