I'm not sure cutters would have helped here. Reading the report suggests the HP made a late, and instinctive, break to try to avoid the wire which placed the wire through the disc and, ultimately, over the boom where it fatally weakened the TRDS. WSPS are normally designed to cut horizontal wires you haven't seen. The key here is SA. The wirestrike risk was, likely, considered adequately mitigated by HLS maps,briefing, lookout and the obstructions tablet (which it seems the crews didn't use in congested areas....). The loss of SA degraded the lookout with aggravating factors (distraction, low arousal task, cockpit frames, Day HUD etc) leading to the holes lining up. It was not their day. The fact that anyone survived such an impact should be somewhat encouraging - but something better can always be found. There are plenty of active wire/obstacle warning systems out there, fully mature, in production and fitted to civ and mil aircraft - MoD considers an advisory only tablet (the database of which is out of date the moment 'save' is pressed...it doesn't take long to put up an aerial or string a wire...), route study, HLS books and lookout to be effective mitigation. Perhaps it's time to look at it again?