Leon, I don't really get where you are coming from here. Every time anything gets posted about this aircraft you jump on your hobbyhorse to trash it. As LowObservable notes, it's hardly consuming vast amounts of defence cash - more gets spent when a major project gets a new IPT leader and they change all the letter headings. How about giving them a chance to show what they can do and then if its rubbish spout on about it afterwards. The thing is so nearly finished that we will soon all see for ourselves the facts rather than the very emotional opinions for and against that get trotted out at the moment. You normally post sensible stuff so I don't know how this project has tweaked your tail but there is clearly some baggage here. It makes you look a bit daft, which is a shame. If you want to jump up and down about wasted money there are lots of more promising examples you could rail at