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Old 15th Mar 2011, 15:52
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MarkRAFIAM
 
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Snoop Better results if there was a horse!

The project had issues from the start.

Ex-RAF staff moving over to join Raytheon and then employing their mates didn't help. This merely put up civilans' backs and that's not to mention their views on how the project should be run based on their previous 'experience'! You see, the in-fighting was not between the RAF and Army, but internal, ex-RAF vs Civilians.

The system has reliabilty issues which is visually obvious by any half brained IT engineer, which was all planned apparently, so that you, I and every other tax paying person can pay for a much needed upgrade to put things right. Although it still won't be 100% compatible with the US systems as the uplinks / downlinks / baud rates, etc. are completely different.

It has potential, but needs new management and to employ people who have gained some commercial experience and not directly from uniform / the institutionalised bullying. Unfortunately, in my opinion, until their house is sorted, the guys on the ground will not be covered as per the original design ideas.
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