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Thursday, June 28, 2012

MoD ‘wastes £6.6bn on unused kit and supplies as it axes thousands of frontline troops’

Nimrod MR2The Ministry of Defence is wasting billions of pounds on equipment it does not need while axing frontline troops to save money.

A damning report today reveals how staggering sums of taxpayers’ cash are being squandered by defence chiefs buying and holding excess supplies.

In one extraordinary example, the MoD admitted holding enough bomb-dropping equipment for the RAF’s Nimrod MR2 maritime patrol aircraft to last 54 years – despite the plane being scrapped in 2009.

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