Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi

 

Sounds more like Spooks than SEAL Team 6

Are we really up to covert operations in foreign countries?  It must have come as quite a shock to realise that Arabs could tell that Chinooks weren’t theirs.

Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:56:09 GMT  From the BBC

Hybrid Helo

 

 

How’s this?  Like having your own mini MV-22 Osprey without having to tilt the wings.  Is that cool or is that cool?

Chinook..chocks away?

Well here it goes for real. Could not believe it when I read this morning that the reason the SF Chinooks are grounded is ultimately because the MoD thought that they could write better software for the CH-47F than Boeing could despite being warned by Boeing that it would not work. So many years later and millions of Pounds of taxpayers' money we have 8 bog-standard Chinooks with no capability, no armour and unable to fly when it's cloudy. But we knew all this. What we didn't know until today is the excruciating hubris of the MoD in thinking they could do it better than Boeing! Latest in a long line of cock-ups that are costing lives. Some years ago the Met were found to be "institutionally rascist". We should raise a new category called "institutionally incompetent" to describe the MoD.

Although the dead hand of Treasury is clearly implicated in this fiasco the MoD needs a root and branch overhaul to enable our troops to get the right kit at the right time.