Unfit for War.

The British Ministry of Defence has paid £12.3 billion of taxpayers money to buy 14 Airbus A330-200 aircraft which cannot go into a war zone because they don'y have the proper protective kit!!

Fitting them with armour, anti-missle systems and early warning gear to allow them to operate in any war zone would cost hundreds of millions more.The delivery programme is running five and a half years late!

Therefore the RAF must keep using old VC10's to transport troops and Tristars for mid air refueling. This is costing some £500 million prior to the new aircraft being delivered in 2016. Flight management systems and cockpit displays have been replaced, on Tristars, at a cost of £23.5 million to keep them flying.Not only the foregoing costs they have paid £175 million, in three years, for private charters to fly personnel and equipment here there and everywhere.

Really this is disgraceful and in the words of 4 Non Blonds "What's going on?"