Deaf Ears
I find it quite disturbing how little those making the decisions seem to listen. One only has to glance at this forum (mostly) composed of professional military aircrew to see what the people who actually do the job think. One only has to flick the telly on to see the devestation of those who threw years of their civilian careers at a cancelled project.
Human stories aside, however, the ratio of money considerations vs. genuine defence and security considerations in the SDSR is mind blowingly off kilter. This is a brilliantly tragic example of 'shoot first, ask questions later'...we can (allegedly) save two billion over two years by scrapping it. OK. Do it.
On the human side I hope all the military personnel involved, or hoping to be involved when the MRA4 came into service, can crack on and have successes elsewhere; same to the civilians involved.
Bad times.