Scrapping Nimrod Illustrates the Scandal That Defence Procurement Had Become
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Buried in the defence cuts announced by the Prime Minister was the final nail in the coffin of probably the biggest public procurement scandal of this or any other decade: the RAF's plagued Nimrod MR4A aircraft ("Scotland battered in defence review", The Herald, October 20).
The project to supply a new maritime reconnaissance and patrol fleet has now been officially scrapped. After 18 years of development, there are currently just three aircraft being tested at RAF Kinloss, but none of them will ever enter service. In total, under successive Conservative and Labour Governments, the project has cost more than pound(s)3bn designing an aircraft that will now never fly.See the full content of this document
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Scrapping Nimrod Illustrates the Scandal That Defence Procurement Had Become
Following the early retirement of the older Nimrod MR2 model after a fatal crash in Afghanistan that killed 16 in 2006, Britain's defences have been working without a long-range airborne maritime patrol capability; this will now become a permanent arrangement.
Originally planned to become operational in 20...See the full content of this document
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