Upgrade the Seaking...come on get a grip. It would be like the Chinook upgrade, waste millions and millions. Upgrade the airframe,change the cockpit,change the head, blades, tail blades, sounds like a new helicopter is required...! 360degree radar..questionable and no dry run on the MGB. Sat tracking (coming soon),what year...! What about "HUMS" and "HOMP" dual hoist, CVFDR, just to mention a few. Unfortuntally the seaking like the S61 has had it's day it time to move on.
At the end of the day it's just to expensive to get the RAF up to speed to cover all SAR. So crab get ready to change uniform. Yes you do provide a good service at the moment but you could do alot better.
Lets keep the Puma as well...another pile of junk.. Someone high up in the RAF/goverment want to wake up and stop telling the RAF..."just upgarde it".