You can not make it up What a cluster I had read that the British pursued the Nimrod AEW as they felt that the E 3 Sentry is not as capable And yet in the end after squandering billions and countless delaysthey end up purchasing the E 3 To prove there are a bunch of nuts running Whitehall they repeat the entire exercise with the Nimrod MRA4 yet more billions down the hole Oh and it turns out the plane wasn t needed anyway as the mission will be assumed by a few ships and a couple of helicopters What a colossal embarrassment