Aircraft will plug gap widely seen as existing in British military security after 2010 SDSR scrapped RAF Nimrods A gaping gap in UK defences exposed by Russian planes and submarines over the final two years is to be plugged with the purchase of new reconnaissance planes, David Cameron will announce in the Commons.
The new planes are an admission that the government made a serious blunder in the budget-crunching 2010 review when it scrapped Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft that provided cover in the North Sea and elsewhere round the UK.
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Source: theguardian.com