British U-turn on US jets damages credibility of UK defence chiefs | News | guardian.co.uk
'Cats and Flaps' Norton-Taylor again - says we're buying only '12' jsf at '£60m' each now - surely these numbers aren't right?
Surely that's (at least?) 12 deployed on a carrier CSG, not total buy!
How many are we actually buying?
The fundamental suggestion about a credibility issue for the SDSR decision making is valid however - as an outsider it feels more like the politicians fault for pushing the switch, but then again did the defence board(?) actually make any warnings against the SDSR 'go for C' option? Was going for a single carrier with cats really what the top mil brass wanted, or were they 'told' to make cats the answer no matter what?