Oh the irony! If you are laying the blame for the loss of MPA at the door of the Army, you are whining up the wrong tree.
Surely loss of the Nimrod is down to Air elements of the MOD, whether RAF or those in Abbey Wood, together with BAES. Between them, for over a decade, they couldn't get their $hit together. That would be a sad enough state of affairs, but to have squandered $4bn in the process is downright criminal. If not intentional, then criminally negligent.
How extraordinary to blame the loss of an RAF capability that has been royally screwed up by those involved on the Army. Been drinking?
The Nimrod force has never provided output to the RAF.
Its fate would only have been saved if the high brass from the Army and Navy had fought for it. CAS didn't care about the loss of the capability because it doesn't effect him at all!