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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Scrapping Nimrod is a defence risk, top MoD official says
The government has taken risks by scrapping the £3.5bn fleet of Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft, the most senior official in the Ministry of Defence has said.
A decision to scrap nine new aircraft was taken after fierce arguments during last year's strategic defence review. It continues to provoke bitter controversy.
Ursula Brennan, permanent secretary at the MoD, was asked by Bob Stewart, a Tory member of the Commons defence committee, whether as a result "we can't see under the water in the seas around us … we have been blind around our coasts".
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