Nit picking on some of the items quoted from 'the 2009 report' that the Oracle article seems use as the basis [i.e. excuse] for this whole NPAS project highlights some inaccurate claims about the units not working together.
Before last October ..... seven identical EC135P2+ helicopters were bought .... and there was another group led by West Yorkshire looking at a further 'identical group' purchase when the plug was pulled. These were just the big purchases there are others.
There were a number of consortia operating very efficiently at the time of the October 2010 launch and some of those were working with other groups to cover regions in the same way as it is suggested NPAS will work. The ones that spring to mind are Eastern, North West, Midlands and Yorkshire. Each worked together in varying degrees - it was an ongoing cooperative and progressive endeavour – and from what I understand most of it stopped quite abruptly last October.
Yes there are flaws - mainly surrounding the different values where some units flew 1200 hours a year and others dawdled at 5-600 hours - but they do not make the whole barrel rotten.
So NPAS appears to be built upon a pretty basic set of lies.
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