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Friday, November 24, 2006

UK weapons projects 36 years behind schedule

Astute-class submarineThe Ministry of Defence’s top 19 weapons projects will be delivered 36 years later than planned, when all the delays are aggregated, the National Audit Office said yesterday.

The NAO, in its annual Major Projects Report, said that the total figure of 433 months in delays was dominated by a small number of “legacy” projects.

One of them, the Nimrod MRA4 maritime and attack aircraft, was currently forecast to take more than double the time originally predicted, the NAO said.

The first Astute nuclearpowered submarine, now under construction, is due to enter service in 2008, three and a half years late. However, that is a slight improvement on last year’s prediction. The report revealed that the MoD had ordered and paid for spares for 21 Nimrods, yet the number of aircraft on order has been cut to 12.

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