Binning the Harriers doesn't sound too clever to me, or was it just a way of making sure that the carriers weren't of much use and so could be got rid of?
Sending the Tornados on their way would have been better, since it looks like dangling bombs over the Typhoon will be happening. Perhaps that would be too upsetting to our European partners?
The cost control of the procurement proceedure looks to be non-existant, the Nimrod following it's AWACs version into the bin, after £billions being spent again.
Have to go begging to the Yanks for a few second hand Rivet Joints (Ooops, I see that's old news! http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/03/22/339763/uk-approves-rivet-joint-purchase.html) (I was wondering what that "KC135" without its flying boom was, when it trundled over me last week, heading towards Waddington - buit it didn't look like it had the necessary lumps & bumps to be sig int)
Junking a lot of Challengers and the heavy artillery makes sense, should have been done years ago, ditto pulling our forces out of Germany.
I wonder if all this "excess stock" will be melted down or sold to some deserving African dictator?