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Old 23rd Jul 2015, 22:26
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Why are we so keen to retire things (specifically the Tranche 1 Typhoons)? Surely the cost of retaining these, even if a bit less capable than their new stablemates would be small relative to their potential usefulness in the game of defence Top Trumps.
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