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that question was asked, and guess what Browne did...
and Stan to respond to your post, we spend more like 230 billion over the period from 2008-2011, the 110 includes a slight increase in overall spending. THe naval proportion includes 14 billion over the carriers and 3.6 billion for the T45's
A direct question was just asked about T45's 7-8 he said he was commited to the 8 number given in 2004, but that orders would be incremental, i.e. there pretty much canceled, but he wants to do it quietly.
A question was also asked about where the future anti-submarine capacity would come from, and if we would have new surface combats. Browne basically said that this capacity would be fulfilled by submarines.
There was a question asked about a contingency to navalize Eurofighter if JSF failed Browne said their was a contingency, but failed to specify what it was. I gather that there is no genuine back up plan beyond one or two theoretical possibilities.
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