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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Next-generation fighters will not be ready for new carriers

Two aircraft carriers to be built for the Royal Navy will have to be equipped with existing Harrier GR9 aircraft because their replacement, new-generation Joint Strike Fighters, will not be ready in time, the Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday.

The first of the carriers is due to be in service in 2014. But David Gould, the MoD chief operating officer for equipment and support, told the Commons Defence Committee that the 36 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) would come into service at a later date.

“The idea that we will have a carrier’s worth of fully productionised, trained and equipped JSFs in 2014 is not going to happen,” he said.

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