I don't have much time left, but I wanted to ask about the search and rescue planes. The Buffalos were supposed to be replaced. In September 2003 you talked about $1.3 billion for search and rescue, a fast-track promise in September 2004. Nothing has really happened since then, and now we're told that the Buffalos are going to be cobbled together until 2015, which is five years past their retirement date.
I want to ask about that, but I also want to ask it in conjunction with what we were talking about earlier, the need for heavy tanks that we're having brought into Afghanistan. We've had a lot of issues in the media, any time an RPG or roadside bomb hits one of our vehicles, as to whether or not we have to replace them.
I think it would be fair to say that when we went into Afghanistan we went in for one role, and then we moved into the counter-insurgency, and we've had to respond fairly quickly, because lives are at stake. We've had to change tack in terms of what kinds of machines are put in the field, whether troop transport, supplies for helicopters, and certainly the issue of tanks. We were initially told that tanks wouldn't be put in, and now we obviously need heavy tanks.
When those decisions have to be made, that we are having problems in the field and we're recognizing.... I mean, you said a metre of steel to withstand an RPG. That's a big big-ticket item and we're going to have to move that fast. Does that mean projects like the Buffalos get put on hold? How do you balance the need to quickly respond in Afghanistan with previous commitments made for domestic purchases?