What about the deluded MOD release a while bck
They claimed Wales was a maintenance and repair centre. Someone was deluded, its just a mail forwarding depot. What a con, whole thing is a con. We should scrap the entire order and build ourselves a few hundred Harriers, and given the ships are so huge we should also build few hundred buccaneers. At least we know both planes work. We could do it in batches.. first batch exactly as original, second batch with modern engines and radar absorbing paint, final batch updated radar etc as well
Even setting up a totally new factory it would still be cheaper, the planes are known to work, known to be reliable and have proven combat ability