It's the age old issue of zero accountability Gil in a bloated civil service, unfit for the task and successive governments ordering equipment to appease constituencies and prop up arms companies...
I think I mentioned this before, a friend of mine works for an engineering company in Gloucestershire, supplying high end measuring and calibration kit to industry and defence.
One of the companies they deal with supplied certain equipment to the RAF in relation to Tornado overhaul. 12 pieces of equipment were ordered by someone in Abbey wood, at a cost of over 1 million, never delivered, despite constant chasing by the company.
A year later a repeat order was placed, when informed about previous equipment in store, the 'new' Abbey Wood drone, just said " not my problem, make 12 more"!
Another great Abby wood case, another mate owned a small courier company. Back in the early 2000's he had a regular job, taking a sealed envelope from a General based at Abbey wood to Portsmouth, FAO a certain Admiral.
This was twice a month on Avarage and a good little earner for his business ... Turns out they were sending chess moves to each other and discussing sandwich choices for there next meeting.....
You couldn't make this sh*it up and this is just the tip of the waste, they throw away billions in poor planning and implementation every year.....Information
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