Be interesting to see if any figures available for how much extra cost has been added for the treasury slowing down projects to save money in particular years? Also cost savings have probably made some projects totally unviable . Would the Nimrod 4 ever have gone ahead as a programme with the numbers now being procured ? I think not as it could never be cost effective as a programme . Looking at transport , ref the critisism of A400M , not that i disagree , but looking at the 'off the shelf'' options, how many years after first flight was C130J cleared to carry out everything that the C130 it replaced was. Although a good machine surely in the longer term the more modern machine has to deliver much reduced costs , after all the C17 is doing that as compared to the a/c it replaced.