Spot on and this just highlights why the RAF is destined to just vanish up its own arse. Just a dreadful arrogance that basically assumes that the Brits can better any system in the world and that the RAF is then entitled to have that system, regardless of cost. The result 90% of the time is a system that is 5 years late, 3 times more expensive, unintegrateable and fails to meet any of the stated requirements.
I for one would rather have a system off the shelf that is deemed good enough for some minor operator like, say, AFSOC instead of dicking about trying to procure some fictional, unbuildable uber system that promises to be able to defeat the Death Star for a mere 10 times the price before cancelling it and deciding we can probably get by with nothing at all instead.
On the plus side, we do provide a continual source of amusement to every other operator in the world.