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Friday, October 17, 2008

Royal Navy now forced to scavenge for parts

The Royal Navy had to scavenge spare parts and transfer them from one ship to another more than 300 times this year because it can no longer afford to hold sufficient stocks to meet the repair needs of every vessel in the fleet.

Figures seen by The Herald reveal that the nuclear submarine flotilla was the worst- affected, with 188 instances of "fitted equipment" being moved between boats to allow operational patrols - many of them from Faslane on the Clyde - to be carried out.

The system of cannibalising ships, aircraft and vehicles has become widespread across the armed forces since the Ministry of Defence introduced a business depreciation scheme to meet Treasury accounting targets for government spending.

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