Not_a_boffin
I actually don't completely disagree, and I do accept that it is far from easy or cheap, but I must admit I don't completely get the desire for new designs when the new airframe doesn't seem to add a lot over existing designs......................and I think a lot of people felt that a Buccaneer with the Tonka's kit would have been the better aircraft.
I guess I made the contribution to this debate for two reasons.............a) could we find a cheaper acceptable alternative to Trident given its impact on a very stretched defence budget, so could we put together a launch platform for a long-range air launched cruise missile for example?, and b) with reference to Typhoon (another topic I know), I don't get why we already seem to be consigning this plane to the history books when we could be planning on continual refinement of the design over the next twenty or more years.