perhaps 90% is slightly optimistic, its mostly a payload thing and range thing. These things always seem to boil down to the Pareto principal, almost all the capability, a vastly reduced cost, can the uk accept this? There are always novel approaches to problems, perhaps the 295 could cue in an F35,...

@ Pseudo despite the P8 being more capable, I'm still swaying towards the C295 argument. The P8 is clearly more capable, but the C295 gives you 90% of the capability for 33% of the price (no i dont work for airbus). The question is are we ok with loosing that 10%? I am of the opinion the UK can no l...