Apparently there's £8bn unallocated in the procurement budget. There's also a fairly substantial wishlist of "whiteboard" items that the MOD hopes to fund out of it, including Typhoon capability enhancements, some army stuff and further RFAs following the MARS tankers currently on order. ISTAR also features on the whiteboard wishlist - detail not yet specified, partly because, as MoD explains it, as technology matures fresh options for delivery can open up. But I get the impression that MPA options now get badged under the ISTAR heading.
Last edited by Frostchamber; 8th Mar 2013 at 16:39.