Here's another viewpoint:
Howard Wheeldon reads between the lines on the announcement to review the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft programme
Nonetheless, I sense that behind this criticism is not the cost of the FSTA programme or whether what the previous government chose was the best option for taxpayers or not. Perhaps this is more about a previous Army Chief of the General Staff, one General Sir Richard Dannatt preferring to see the RAF completely starved of all investment. Why is it I wonder that I get the impression that there are still those in active Army service or that have recently left the service that just do not realise the massively important roll the RAF and indeed the Royal Navy play in meeting our full NATO obligations be those in Afghanistan, on the high seas, across the rest of the globe where our forces serve or here at home?