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Saturday, November 20, 2010

RAF Kinloss: Scrapped replacement for Nimrod 'largely completed'

NimrodFurther questions have been raised about the government's decision to drop the new Nimrod planes after a minister admitted that all nine of them were largely completed.

In a written answer to Moray SNP MP Angus Robertson, defence minister Peter Luff said that one of the MR4A maritime reconnaissance aircraft was ready, three were more than 90 per cent complete and the other five were at least 40 per cent complete.

The cancellation of the project, which has already cost the UK £3 billion, sealed the fate of RAF Kinloss, which now can only survive as a potential army base for troops being withdrawn from Germany.

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