Daily Mail Article from 12 April
This article is so totally wrong as to be unbelievable!
"U.S. Army Air Force", "gathering dust in a boneyard for retired planes...", buying to replace a Nimrod spy plane that crashed in Afghan...(that jet was a patrol aircraft). "RAF has completed a refit" (actually done by L-3 COMM not the RAF) are all totally wrong statements by a clueless reporter.
The only accurate statement in the whole article was: 'The fact it is a re-engineered older aircraft doesn’t affect the capability on board; it just means that a different safety case has to be presented.'
Wonderful 'Fleet Street' reporting. Guess is should have not expected anything better.