U.K. Cuts Aircraft Fleets in Strategic Review
By Robert Wall wall@aviationweek.com
LONDON
As part of its 8% cut in planned defense spending, the U.K. will retire a slew of aircraft early and also revamp its modernization plans.
The decisions laid out today under the long-awaited Strategic Defense and Security Review include a decision to cancel the BAE Systems MRA4 Nimrod program and retire the Raytheon R1 Sentinel ground-surveillance platform as ...
