Originally Posted by
vulcanxl426
This is what i dont understand why dont the RAF ask other nations if they need or want any airframes or spares instead of scrapping them or selling them for next to nothing as companys like the one in suffolk are rubbing there hands together thinking thank you RAF anything else you wanna sell .
You can blame the Braun one again. RAC or resource accounting requires the owner to acknowledge cost of ownership. In, say, your Harrier canopy cost £100k then the MOD has to pay the Treasury £6k pa (assuming 6% which was a figure I saw quoted).
Also in never-never-land, a stores building whose racking is 6 feet and whose ceiling is 12 feet in, by definition, 50% empty. That extra space has to be paid for ..............