On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:59:01 +0100, Greg Hennessy wrote:

IMO the really silly (and extremely expensive) decision was to develop
the 25mm Aden in the first place, in a calibre not used by the
British, when the effectively identical 27mm Mauser was already in
service in the Tornado. It would have been a waste of resources even
if the design had worked...

One wonders what inducements were given to allow the design to proceed at
public expense in the 1st place. it never ever made any sort of commercial
sense.

Indeed one does wonder.

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