MOD is very much a vested interest
Vested in maintaining jobs forth the boys, spending money with companies who'll offer nice pleasant landing seats when people retire from the civil service, in spinning out contracts as long as possible so they'll be kept in a job for life, or at least until they can pick up a fat pension and move on to a role in industry
As for "a highly unreliable WW2 era rocket " - I seem to remember that reliability was actually quite high. Using modern engineering techniques and better quality modern materials (which does NOT imply increased cost) then the things would work reliably. As I said before, resolving the targeting issue would be trivial, using commercially available off-the-shelf parts
Your comments about communications are a red herring. Modern comms equipment can be provided as a low-cost containerised bolt-ons i while target info could easily be acquired as of now, by satellite, RPV or boots on ground
Last edited by jamesdevice; 19th Jun 2011 at 17:18.