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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Admirals attack Harrier scrapping

AV-8B HarrierA group of retired admirals has called on government to reverse its decision to decommission HMS Ark Royal and the UK's Harrier jets as set out in the Strategic Defence and Security Review.

The group made the call in a letter to The Times newspaper signed by former Royal Navy chiefs Lord West and Sir Julian Oswald as well as Vice-Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham, Vice-Admiral John Mcanally and Major General Julian Thompson.

In the letter, the group say the decision to scrap the harriers is "strategically and financially perverse", and could result in the UK losing the "newly valuable" Falkland islands.

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