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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Scrapping of Harrier jump jet is 'short sighted'

Sea HarrierAdmiral Lord West of Spithead said it was not clear what Britain would be able to do if hostilities between North and South Korea intensified. His comments came after four Harrier GR9 jets took off from the HMS Ark Royal yesterday for the last time.

In a letter to The Times, Lord West said that to fail to support the USA – which yesterday dispatched one of its aircraft carriers to the Korean peninsula – would be a "mistake".

For Britain to do the same would represent "the sort of commitment an ally such as the United States requires", he wrote.

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