Nimrod MRA4 Being Broken Up

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Revolving Doors

As a magazine Private Eye can be relied upon to expose hypocracy within so called squeeky clean organisations or individuals. The RAF would seem to be no different. From the Feb 17th edition, below a cartoon of a son telling his father that his broken model of a Nimrod is actually finished, is the following article:

REVOLVING DOORS: The £200m compensation paid to BAE Systems for scrapping the Nimrod MRA4 programme should cover the salary of its latest Ministry of Defence recruit for a few years. Air Chief Marshall Sir Glen Torpy, who has been made "senior advisor" to BAE, was in charge of the Air Force from April 2006(shortly before the latest "unaffordable" Nimrod contract was signed), until July 2009. His parting shot, in June 2009, was to endorse the controversial Eurofighter Typhoon, which came through the recent Strategic Defence Review at the expense of the Harrier.
"There is no other aircraft better than the Typhoon except for a US F22 Raptor, and an F22 is significantly more expensive" he drooled. "Typhoon is truly multi-role - it is a world-class aeroplane. It is absolute rubbish to call it a Cold War relic and that just demonstrates that people do not understand what the aircraft does."
The holder of the multi-billion-pound contract to make the Typhoon? BAE Systems.