Scepticism isn't negativity
The reason some of us are wary of what the MOD do with regard to our maritime capability is that some of us know precisely what we have lost.
I am not sure that those currently in the MOD are fully aware of the scale of the task ahead of us to recover this.
There will be a day in the run up to the next General Election when a politician will say that they have spent £xM on a new maritime system. To some, maybe even to a lot this will sound like a significant step has been taken.
When in all probability all we will have is an aircraft looking for a role with a new 'software drop'.
You can't fault Raytheon, as I said earlier - their job like all the others in the defence industry is to make money for their shareholders.
But you can't help wondering if that money could have been better spent on ... oh I don't know ... maybe an extension to the Seedcorn initiative?