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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Aircraft carrier fighter jet programme 'huge risk', warn MPs

F-35B Lightning IIMPs have raised fresh concerns about the cost of fighter jets for the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers, warning of "uncontrolled growth" in budgets.

The Commons Public Accounts Committee said billions of pounds had already gone "down the drain" during the carrier strike procurement programme.

An order for jump jets for the two new carriers was scrapped in 2010, only to be reversed eighteen months later.

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