Golden Rules
A "golden rule" eh?
As in F35?, or Nimrod whatever year it's now called?
About the last time we used a well proven engine in a combat aircraft was the Spey in the Bucc, and thanks to Blackburn and Roy Boot we have never had a better aircraft. Strange to think isn't it that thirty five years ago we had almost all the capability we are now praying for! Progress in the field of defence is an odd thing to behold. I sadly tend to believe that there will simply not be the will in either government of the Navy to push mightily to continue this; the time frame will slip into IGBAD refurbishment, batch two Astutes, Trident refurb, Type 45 buys, NGF, and the money simply will not be there.