Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
Without straying too far into the stupidity of their particular action. What is your latest assessment of the damage caused by this paricular incident? I have seen some really poor stuff you linked to LBC talking about £55m or £30m by some subby expanding on a Times article. Elsewhere there are reports that at least one of the planes has flown to a Scottish base seemingly unhindered.

A more recent Sky report talks about an assessment of £7m. Other reports talk about the loss being to the defense industry rather than the country because the planes in question were leased to the UK rather than owned by.

So, setting aside whether this was an act of stupidity or not (in my opinion it was) do you feel duped by those media sources massively hyping up the damage when you are the arbiter of balanced evaluation?
Odd post. It's not my assessment Cyril, it's sharing a quoted figure. That's the best can be done.

But it's not about the cost is it, it's the principle. In targeting a country's military to force them to meet your political aims, it's not hard to see why they pass the threshold to be proscribed. Some of you acting like it's locking up Bambi, but it's not hard to see how a line was crossed is it?