There seem to be two conversations going on here. The first, from the likes of tuc, seems to relate to the same old familiar tale told on the Hercules Parliamentary Questions thread, the Chinook HC2 Mull thread, and of course the Nimrod Afghanistan thread; of a deliberate and systematic suborning of the UK Military Airworthiness Regulations by 2*s and above, resulting in a dysfunctional and dangerous system of UK Military Aircraft Provision. The other conversation seems to be about bomb bay doors, AFTUs, and other minutiae.
Might I suggest that we pay more attention to the woods, rather than be distracted by so many "trees"? The reason that the RAF has lost its Maritime Patrol capability (OK a rose by any other name, so please substitute the present up to date nomenclature for my incorrect one) is not because of speed limited bomb bay doors, or wrongly sited AFTUs, but because this nation can no longer provide such aircraft competently.
All that suborning has left us without such competence.
All that suborning has sabotaged this nation's defence.
All that suborning remains uninvestigated, let alone punished!