Hi again Evalu8ter.
You are correct of course...not any extra cash in the pot...except that already programmed in for maintaining the SK until 2015 (now) and then the annual payments for the SAR-H programme post 2012 until 2042 (when the last flight ceases to be on contract).
Therefore there is already the bulk of the cash programmed in...Question is simply do they go ahead with that, or if not (due to whatever reason is behind the recent announcement) then any SK continuance will have to fit the spend profile as already mentioned - and only perhaps for up to 10 years to 2020 when a bright new finacial dawn might allow something shiney and new. If immediate mods are required...be they sustainment or capability...then if they can't be afforded from the already planned profile funds...as you say they will have to be found to the detriment of something else......IMO it will not be allowed to be so much as to have the effect you mention...but surely something will have to give from the MoD budget somewhere if Minister's want to save their skins - twas ever thus...or taken at risk - hoping that JSF will underspend in-year or something similar!
...and anyway...Lada is quite a good brand these days!
