Whereas ,Roly, when the C130 leaves service, the RAF will have a capability which it no longer needs (FRU equipped ac).
Vasco,
What? You mean the E3 is going? A400M isn't getting a probe? C130J going early? I think we have an extant requirement for a few years yet.
SO1 and his SO2 in MB in late 2009. They were experts, they'd be over-ruled
I think the SO1 and SO2 experts have been over-ruled since about 2000.