Originally Posted by
tucumseh
You are right to raise Nimrods. I still think a public inquiry into the MRA4 would rattle a few cages and force change for the better. Isn't going to happen, for political reasons.
You cannot have a *public* enquiry into a military programme, but you can have an enquiry. In fact they did - the NAO conducted several (eg Major Projects Report 2003) and as a result determined that the £800m cost over-run was due in equal part to errors in the MoD/RAF/Treasury and in the contracted companies.
PDR