Nimrod R1 Replacement
Lots of thread drift here we've wandered into a discussion on MR2 replacement. P8A has nothing to do with RI replacement.
The Role of the R1 and the Nimrod MR2/4 are (still) significantly different but I guess that a P8 airframe (or any other wide body jet) could be useful for a future R1 replacement.
Incidently, anyone else out there got XV249 in their log book in all 3 of it's guises, MR1, MR2 and R1?