There was an interesting comment by Caroline Wyatt on the Radio 4 midnight news last night in an article about the job losses at BAeS. She finished with the line:
"However, the MoD is now looking for alternative aircraft to perform a similar role to the task carried out by the Nimrod"
This could be the usual dreadful MoD
PR smoke and mirrors and just be a reference to the RJ/R1 programme. Or are other things afoot?
iPlayer about 18 mins onwards...