Originally Posted by Dectilion

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.