Rachel Reeves “darà il via libera” ad un contratto per elicotteri militari da 1 miliardo di sterline

Well, if the UK is true to form, there’ll be cost overuns, total mismanagement by people you wouldn’t want near a bike let alone an aircraft, staff churn will necessitate restarting of various stages of the project, etc, etc, etc.

So for £1 Billion we’ll probably end up with just one helicopter, and even then we’ll need scource the rotors elsewhere for an extra cost.

Fantastic news. Yeovil is supported for the coming decades, more money into UK industry and most importantly the RAF gains a cutting-edge, multi-role aircraft worth of succeeding the Puma.

Plus the AW-149 is absolutely gorgeous