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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

RAF 'offer to scrap £3.5 billion Nimrods'

NimrodJane’s Defence Weekly, the respected military magazine, said the offer was submitted by air force chiefs to the Strategic Defence and Security Review being conducted by the Coalition Government.

Although scrapping the new Nimrod would save only £200 million immediately, it claimed that £3 billion would be cut in the longer term, partly through savings at RAF Kinloss in Moray, where the planes are to be based.

In addition, it said the RAF had also proposed the early retirement within five years of all of the service's 130 Tornado GR4 strike aircraft.

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