Oz42
A well written post that puts some perspective on the ''bigger picture''. Those deriding British industry would seem to rather spend taxpayers money in the USA or Italy or where-ever, and export all the jobs with them. The Nimrod MRA4 decision costs jobs up and down the length of the UK, thousands of them if one looks out 20 years, including those lost in local economies. The culling and export of British industry does nothing for the prospects of school and university leavers, and Hawk, Harrier, Typhoon and the Nimrod MR2s and MRA4s all seem / seemed to have good support with their user communities in the RAF. So some perspective and consideration of the bigger picture is indeed required, including capability loss, while not excusing what seems to have been David Cameron's personal decision with MRA4.