1000,000,000 GDP for 70 A/C thats about 14.5 Million each - pretty good value on the face of it. These are new builds aren't they?

Contradiction in terms
 

What, you mean like: "military intelligence" ?;)

If we get them for £14/15M a pop they'll be well worth it, provided that :

a. We crack on and decide what FASGW is
b. We buy it an put it on the aircraft
c. We avoid stupid ideas like putting it into the IFTU and then cancelling the first years spares as a "cost-saving"
d. We put a decent gearbox in from the off....

The T45 will carry Flynx by default, as there aren't enough Merlin airframes to sort both the 2087 equipped T23 and a T45 deployment. AS mentioned elsewhere. Merlin HM currently brings very little additional capability in anything but ASW. I am still waiting to see how a 16 tonne helicopter can be moved around by 10 blokes and a palletrion on steroids....

Of course it will, as does the present Lynx and as the Lynx Mk2 did previously.



It will be called WILDCAT

Well..based on the recent history of UK procurement I would guess that circa 2015 it will be know as the "Missing Lynx".