Caspian,
Ignoring the confusion of the article, if you wanted to save some serious cash in the next Defence Review (we do) then if you decided that CVF was the wrong / an unaffordable capability, then you could do the following:
- Cancel CVF
- Chop CVS (minus CVF, unnecessary)
- Chop Harrier (not going back to the 'Stan, not needed for CVS or CVF)
- Chop Dave-B and procure Dave-C in 2020 to replace GR4
Which would save lots of cash - and lot of Matelots to do other, more useful, things.
The question is, would MoD have the nerve...
S41