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Looking again at your post, it appears to me that you stated that it HAD happened but not why. That being said, we are at least in agreement. Of course it's the big argument - do you bite the bullet and contract for more, knowing that the unit price will be reduced and you might sell some abroad or get another squadron/battery loadout or two a few years down the road, or do you stay within your means, buy the whole production batch in FY X through Y, and accept that you might never find customers? Ultimately an obsolescent SAM defending your airbases is better than none at all, but what would you replace it with? Sea Dart in a fixed land installation? How hard would that be, when the technology is proven anyway and the production line already exists?
Looking again at your post, it appears to me that you stated that it HAD happened but not why. That being said, we are at least in agreement.
Of course it's the big argument - do you bite the bullet and contract for more, knowing that the unit price will be reduced and you might sell some abroad or get another squadron/battery loadout or two a few years down the road, or do you stay within your means, buy the whole production batch in FY X through Y, and accept that you might never find customers?
Ultimately an obsolescent SAM defending your airbases is better than none at all, but what would you replace it with? Sea Dart in a fixed land installation? How hard would that be, when the technology is proven anyway and the production line already exists?
