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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Navy has to ask French for help in hunt for 'Russian submarine' thanks to defence cuts

Scrapped NimrodBritain was forced to call on its NATO allies for maritime aircraft to help hunt for a suspected foreign submarine after the Government scrapped its own patrol planes in defence cuts.

At the height of the operation, five aircraft from four different nations were working with Royal Navy ships in the search for the mystery vessel.

Since the Government scrapped its Nimrods in the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review - claiming it would save £2billion over a decade - the UK has lacked a specialist maritime patrol aircraft.

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