I suspect you might, M2. It'll be good for you. Not quite sure how the shambles that the project was is entirely relevant to the spares issue. Maybe it's a cntinuation of the same thing - care to explain?
The spares of major items issue was the same with F4 and F3, as you remember. Radar packs moving from jet to jet. Admittedly the F3 suffered because all the spares were going to a certain oil-rich customer, but we still had to rob aircraft the whole time. Why should this be any different when cash is (supposedly) even tighter?
I think we know this would happen. No suprises here.