So are you suggesting that burning through over a Billion Pounds of critical Defence budget for zero or limited return is OK as long as we keep some UK jobs in play? To list the litany of piss-poor Procurements over the decades does not exactly justify it. If the price of a UK defence industry is wanton and profligate waste while jeopardizing military capability and lives then maybe being beholden to a foreign COTS provider does make sense? What the MoD are doing now is the absolute definition of insanity.