Go On R4H, give fellow Pruners a laff and tell them the name of the project.
You could not make it up.
Sad to say this project was not a great example of joined up thinking. It consumed the department budget through an enormous overspend leaving little left in the pot for anything else.
The full capability demonstrated during the trials in 1999 was not in service in 2012.
I guess A400M will solve some of the problems.