No matter how much I wanted to see these in service you have to admit the delays have been a bit of a p***take. I'm just surprised that it wasn't canned sooner, but what a waste...
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This is.it's there.maybe not finished but stupid to scrap it now.
Keep the project.but start now in designing an all new platform to take over ASAP which may well be ten or more years
Funny how the PM mentions times we were lacking stuff before as if to say it will be OK completely ignoring the fact the in 1939, and other times.....1982 was another....we were caught out.
He should look at those time of lacking as a warning not as a means to be complacent...........and all this when the country is actually fighting a war.
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
I agree - The new Nimrod should never have been. Coming out of the cold war, did we really need it? We could have had re-conditioned Orion turboprops, or even a suitable version of an existing Airliner (A330) would surely have been cheaper.
As Garry says, the design (engines buried in wing roots) is hopelessly outdated, more costly to modify, and limits future engine upgrades.
BUT,When billions of pounds have been spent on something (which has gone way, way over budget) but is on the cusp of entering service, it's just too far advanced to scrap!
......I can see Russia stepping up and testing our now severely limited defence.