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Thursday, March 27, 2008

MoD urged to consider scrapping Nimrod

The Ministry of Defence must decide whether it should "cut its losses" and abandon the Nimrod programme after a delay of some eight years and a near billion-pound overspend, a group of MPs said on Thursday.

The Nimrod MRA4 maritime patrol aircraft, which has been blighted by development problems, will have racked up a further overrun of 100 million pounds in 2007/8, bringing the total over-budget figure to 800 million pounds.

The aircraft was originally announced in 1992 as a replacement for the Nimrod MR2, but has suffered technical problems.

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