Britain’s next generation of fast jets are less likely to be delivered as planned because of concerns over simulators, software and weapons.
Well, poop. Now wait ten seconds for the fans to tell us that these are the normal issues to be expected with the delivery of a game-changing superwonderweapon, and so on and so forth.
Which of course they are. It takes time and money to update sims &c and there is a tendency to lag changes in the platform, because Mr Sim PM likes to wait until the changes have been tested before he spends his own budget.
However, the fact that these problems are common doesn't mean they were insoluble had they been addressed at the right time, and it does mean that they could and should have been anticipated.