''Machine tools have been destroyed"
"Telegraph has also learnt that very senior military chiefs have written privately to defence industry figures to begin looking at replacing the Nimrods in three years’ time. A likely replacement would probably be an inferior American aircraft."
TSR-2 all over again ??
On the other hand, if BAE Systems had actually done their job on time, rather than relentlessly milking the 'revised spec' cash cow that is the ineffective MoD, then it would already be in service