IRaven
I presume you have a list of favourite places from where you'd like to see UK kit sourced. I'd like to offer a selection of ace products from beyond our shores (and don't give us any crud about UK involvement, these are foreign aircraft) - F35, now there's a schedule and cost success story in the making; A400M, bang on time; FSTA - TWICE the annual in-service cost of the MRA4, for a bl**dy railway carriage with wings; P8 (a derivative of the hugely successful P7 programme) - already cost more in development than the MRA4's now famous £3.8bn even with a mission system developed for them. We could go on. I think you'll find that in the UK the common thread is the organisation buying the kit not the source of supply.
I'm all for a bit of banter, and black humour is definitely something the UK does well, but from where I sit I'm finding your comments increasingly insensitive and at times downright offensive.
Last edited by Mend em; 26th Nov 2010 at 20:42.
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