I refer you to my post at 5361.
And, like I said, there came a time when MoD abandoned the requirements for experience, competence and engineering qualifications when filling vacancies in the team charged with preparing answers to Mull PQs.
Only one reason for doing that. They wanted people who would simply regurgitate the party line, without actually knowing anything about what they were talking about. How else can you explain the nonsense they wrote?
A simple example - I remain convinced ZD576 was a converted Mk1. But, apparently, I’m wrong. That is not a minor issue. The clear purpose of such a deceit is to create, in peoples’ minds, a false airworthiness baseline of November 1993, so hiding legacy Mk1 problems and the failure of mandated process when creating a new Mk of aircraft.
Lying has only one purpose – to hide the truth. In this case the inescapable truth is that senior officers knew the haste with which the Mk2 was rushed into service, while still in the development stage, was unjustifiable.