Nosey,
Good points. Press reports - especially in the national newspapers are more often wrong in some detail than right. They may also be hugely out of date. The recent 'revelation' about being able to intercept and watch intelligence imagery from US assets over the Balkans had been all over the internet months ago, and was in a monthly aviation mag in about April. Fleet Street caught up with it in June.....
You seem to be hinting that this latest revelation may be 'old news' - perhaps dating from before the decision to resurrect the AMRAAM optimisation programme. Perhaps it was the reason that the programme was resurrected?
C'mon, nosey, confirming that surely wouldn't contravene OSA, and would probably win you promotion to Squadron Leader, Wing Commander or even Group Captain for wiping the egg off MoD faces!