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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Army and Navy clash over ships


The head of the Royal Navy has defended the commissioning of two new aircraft carriers, rejecting claims that they were outdated "Cold War relics".

Admiral Sir Jonathon Band warned that Britain would always need "higher end capabilities" in the future.

His speech was seen as a riposte to Army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt, who said many new equipment programmes were "irrelevant" to modern warfare.

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