Two's In
Even allowing for the usual journalistic license of the Mail, this story of selling 72 Harriers to the USMC for £112M each, shortly after a £600M upgrade appears to be the kind of Government thinking that gets us where we are today. Maybe there's a logical explanation for why you would give someone a £30Bn discount...
Thirty Billion Pounds, WTF?
From the Mail :
the aircraft were upgraded in the last ten years at a cost of £500million and a weapons system upgrade was carried out in the last five years at a cost of £100million.l
So.... not exactly "shortly after spending 600 million"
As for how any Harrier might fetch 112 Million quid, well, that's not much of a bargain for the Marine Corps.
Lastly, how did you lose two aircraft between reading the story in the Mail and typing it here?