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Full article here:The Royal Air Force is expected to bear the brunt of what one industry executive described as a "gruesome" budget planning round for 2010
2013!?!? What are they building them out of? Matchsticks?Flying Figgis wrote:Well, whatever happens, cuts will be announced today following the announcement of the procurement of 20 new Chinooks! It appears these won't be ready until 2013 though. As Gerald Howarth MP pointed out this morning, if Gordon TaliBrown hadn't cut £1.5bn out of the helicopter programme some while back, we wouldn't be in this mess now! Who is the real enemy? Maybe it starts with 'B'!
That and the fact that we are at the back of an enormous order backlog, Boeing can't build the things fast enough...jagmadandy wrote:2013!?!? What are they building them out of? Matchsticks?Flying Figgis wrote:Well, whatever happens, cuts will be announced today following the announcement of the procurement of 20 new Chinooks! It appears these won't be ready until 2013 though. As Gerald Howarth MP pointed out this morning, if Gordon TaliBrown hadn't cut £1.5bn out of the helicopter programme some while back, we wouldn't be in this mess now! Who is the real enemy? Maybe it starts with 'B'!
Full story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8413135.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The BBC understands RAF Cottesmore in Rutland faces closure, with the Harriers based there moving to RAF Wittering before being phased out of service altogether earlier than planned.
The Tornado force based at RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Marham in Norfolk will lose one squadron and it is thought parts of RAF Kinloss, in Moray, could be mothballed.
I don't think he's managed anything semi-literate yet!!HighlandSniper wrote:It's quite clear that Brown and his cronies don't give a sh!t about defence, it's all about their personal and political agendas. Brown's false smiles and pathetic semi-literate letters to the next of kin of dead soldiers don't convince anyone except perhaps his politically corrupt followers.
If there's a whip-round for the fuel, I'll put in a tennerFlying Figgis wrote:I've just heard that a four ship of Harriers has just taken off for Copenhagen! Mission: to Paveway the Hopeless, hapless ba****d of a pm! Hmm wishful thinking!
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