So once again the UK Military has been given a knowingly unairworthy aircraft to fly, a fact that has been known of since the inception of this project. I suppose one could say it will be in good company then, but wasn't the Haddon-Cave Report and its love child, the MAA, supposed to stop all that? No? Oh, how silly of me to forget that their purpose is to protect VSO's, not the poor sods in the aircraft.
Talking of silver bullets, perhaps the present DG might be minded to hand his predecessor a gun loaded with one, and then leave him alone with it....