I bet if the MOD told you pigs fly you'd believe them
Anyway I rarely read the Mail - its target audience is blue-rinse Tory madams.
Don't think I quite fit the demograph
As for no staff requirement - history is full of staff requirements that change, get cancelled, don't make sense or are unattainable. Conversely there have been a fair number of weapons which made it into significant service and never had a staff requirement issued. The Tallboy bomb I believe was one...not only was there no staff requirement, there wasn't even a production order for them placed until AFTER they had been used