Why? Mind you I've some distant family left over there, but still... Brits have my favorite proposal of all. I forget what it was exactly called, but I believe it was during the early to mid '60's when the British govt. said all aircraft were obsolete since the advent of the ICBM and basiclly killed the Royal Navy's air fleet and hobbled the RAF aircraft for a good long while to make way for more ICBMs. I don't see why any nuclear arsenel has to be updated at this point, I doubt well see anything like the cold war for a 3 or 4 more decades and even then we might not be so luckly as with the last. Waste of taxpayer money. Yes, the American Air Force and aircraft industry were quite upset that our friendly, yet backwards, neighbors were about to create something that could knock out anything we had at the time. I find that fairly funny, but all the politics involved were sick... But it is usually that way with the military.