There again, yesterday, most of the so called Defence Correspondents were saying that we were about to pay off the Sea Harrier....only 10 years late reporting that one!
Apart from the CV/Harrier fiasco (a truly monumental error by both the RAF and RN), I find it amazing that the Army has got away with it.....how can one possibly look another nation in the eye and say we paid off military capability to keep horses and gun carriages (all to be celebrated at The Tattoo later this year) - absolute madness.