Not all of the changes made to the UK Apache were designed to allow Westlands to 'rip off the MoD'
Engines - quite true. However, I still can't fathom why the MoD allowed Westlands to have exclusive rights to provide all the lubricants - even at detached sites, despite having no deployed logistics capability.
Sounds innocuous? On its own perhaps - but we pre-paid for all planned engine overhauls. So what? Our pre-payments were rendered null and void if we used our own lubricants.
How many copies of the Westland contract were distributed to REME/AAC on deployment?
Only a complete sucker of a customer would let that pass and only an arrogant, predatory, short-termist supplier would put it in a contract.