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  What you seem to forget is that the airframes of these aircraft is a veritable antique, the Nimrod uses the Comet airframe - one that failed as a commercial airliner. The first prototype flew in 1949 and the plane was withdrawn from commercial service in 1964 - so these airframes are at best 46 years old. Therefore they are expensive to maintain as all parts are custom made etc. no one is going to buy these and mothballing will cost almost as much as using them. To be honest the MR$ should never have been ordered it was Portillo's folly for doing that and every subsequent defence ministers for not stopping the project.

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