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What does £2 billion buy these days?

Why that figure?

Its very roughly the amount of aid we have given to India in the last 10 years, the 10 year period counting back from 2010/2011 will be more like £2.2 billion but for the sake of convenience lets stick with the nice round number. We can also ignore accumulated inflation and other factors, £2billion it is then

As the MoD enters a period of yet more austerity it might be interesting to ponder what one can buy with a couple of billion quid.

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This Post Has 8 Comments

  1. Sven Ortmann June 15, 2010

    Are you really sure about the MRAP’s price here?

  2. Jed June 15, 2010

    C17 is poignant considering India appears to be ordering more of them than we will have…..

  3. admin June 15, 2010

    Hi Sven, about £450k including all the extras but its only a rough guide

  4. Jedibeeftrix June 15, 2010

    Sorry for the OT comment, but I’d like to recommend the latest FDR report for some TD attention, it should be interesting as it thinking appears to run in the same direction as this site.

    Bizarrely the paper is advertised on the website, but it can be downloaded by clicking on this link:
    http://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/FDR7.pdf

  5. admin June 15, 2010

    JD, its in the pipeline!

  7. Richard Stockley June 15, 2010

    Does anyone have any figures for what we get in return? Was there any link to the BAE Systems Hawk sale? Have we sold India anything significant in the last few years? A nuclear powerplant maybe?

  8. paul g June 15, 2010

    richard, does jaguar/land rover count?

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