Army & RN get money, whats in it for the RAF
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Army & RN get money, whats in it for the RAF
With seemingly the Army getting their Apaches upgraded to AH-64E standard for a couple of billion, and the Navy getting money to update Faslane, what do we think the RAF will be getting money for, if anything.
Last edited by bluetail; 1st Sep 2015 at 12:32.
To be fair, £500M at Faslane wont actually buy very much. Compare that to the cost of HS2 - projected at between £43 and 80 Bn depending on which report you read. And it may buy you about 3 miles of a 3 lane motorway.
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Neither of those two "stories" are worth a can of baked beans. Trident base upgrade story deserves better than to be released on a wet UK Bank Holiday, without the approval (in fact with the seeming apparent disapproval) of all the resident SNP MPs in London Parliament. It will never, ever happen.
Hard to see a positive future for the RAF at all. Drone development? UK anti drone-attack squadron forming up?
Hard to see a positive future for the RAF at all. Drone development? UK anti drone-attack squadron forming up?
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At the risk of regurgitating past discussion, P-8, no decision but probably in the pipeline, good capability, etc. But where will it be based? Anoint it as an ISTAR asset and shoehorn into Waddington? Or shoehorn into Lossie or Brize? Or, can it go into a former but still active airfield like Kinloss or Leuchars? Crikey, we could even christen either of the latter candidates "Joint Bases" just like our US cousins are increasingly doing...
