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My favourite ludicrous defence spending story was when the MoD decided to save money by deleting the 27mm cannon from the Typhoon and replacing it with ballast, until it turned out several years down
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My favourite ludicrous defence spending story was when the MoD decided to save money by deleting the 27mm cannon from the Typhoon and replacing it with ballast, until it turned out several years down the line that the ballast was going to cost more than the gun. So they bought the gun *as ballast*
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- Bluesky ↗ · first seen 2026-06-16 08:37 UTC
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