JFZ90 -
The cancellation decision was initiated by the need to save money. The end.
Quite right - what I really ought to have said is more along the lines of 'at least we now know the details of the faults that he is claiming the decision is based on'.... I have previously said that Fox/Cameron keep talking about safety etc but they have never gone into any detail, leaving the rest of us to guess at the state of the aircraft.
No doubt the decision was indeed money led, as per the rest of the SDSR, but if MRA4 had by then been ready to deploy it might (might) have been somewhat harder to cancel quite so readily.
As it is we now need a new LRMPA, and that won't be cheap.
Dave