... For Profit
I'm sure soon we'll see some photos of the mock-up and perhaps 3D CAD drawings coming out. Those will highlight quite radical differences ...
Then maybe you'll see that FLynx is really quite a step forward from Lynx, using new techniques for manufacturing (ahead, I'm told of Airbus and their famous wings), far lower airframe costs, greater strength, completely revised weaponry and loads of avionics (which is where a lot of the space went btw).
149 will be a wonderful and worthy batlefield aircraft ... but as DM said, it's some way off.
If the UK wants its global shipping lanes open (tell little Johnnie his Wii got knicked by pirates), the RN really needs SCMR ASAP.
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