An amazing amount of ignorance on this thread and some serious naivety too.
Feeling brave are we?
The new SAR cabs are faster, cheaper, stronger, safer, more reliable.
And of course you can quantify all those points with hard evidence? And whilst the cabs themselves may be cheaper, is the overall capability cheaper? Like it or not, contractorisation only appears to be cheaper on paper; when you want them to do something slightly out of the ordinary, then the costs suddenly sky rocket.