A friend of mine brought it into service and took it on its first deployment. A well respected operator. Whilst he acknlowledges some short falls, he felt it had done some good stuff and contributed a lot to the picture. In fact, the GMTI picture has been central to the op and will be for a while to come.
SDSR or not, there are those in the corridors that haven't yet given up on R1 - as Prop-Ed says.
Prop-Ed, don't give up the posts.