UK Maritime Patrol Aircraft - An Urgent Requirement
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Lancashire
Age: 72
Posts: 29
MRA4 was cancelled to save the £2bn operating cost over 10 years to 2020. So here we are spending the same money and probably a good deal more on getting nine half as capable P-8s into service in the same timescale. Good game, good game!
EG
EG
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lincolnshire
Age: 77
Posts: 16,733
How do we figure an operational aircraft to be half as capable as MRA 4 that demonstrated no capability at all?
Join Date: Aug 1998
Location: England
Posts: 1,872
PN
That's a bit harsh. The MRA4 systems worked and demonstrated lots of capability (much of which is now embedded within the P-8); it was that airframe that really let the mission system down.
MRA 4 that demonstrated no capability at all