ST Article
An interesting article in today's Sunday Times which, given Liam Fox's comments last week, has the total ring of truth about it. If true yet another reason for a Public Inquiry - both MOD and BAES would deserve to be utterly castigated, and the guilty parties punished, for the waste of money and the loss of this "vital" operational capability. Also, if BAES has failed to meet mandated and contracted (ie paid for) design standards why are MOD now paying them yet more money to break the aircraft up rather than suing the a*** off them for their failure to design and build an airworthy and "fit for purpose" (bomb bay doors that cannot be opened 15 years into the project?) aircraft?
If, on the other hand, BAES have fully complied with the contracted requirement and MOD failed properly to specify what was needed for an airworthy and functionally acceptable aircraft to be delivered we will, I suggest, need a Public Inquiry to find out just who did what and why (more cost saving measures perhaps?).
Either way I suggest that this is not something those concerned should be allowed to "walk away" from as it seems happened with the Nimrod AEW fiasco.
JB
Last edited by John Blakeley; 30th Jan 2011 at 09:15.