RAF - Strategic Defence and Security Review

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RAF - Strategic Defence and Security Review

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Ministry of Defence (UK)

Strategic Defence and Security Review published

The Strategic Defence and Security Review' details how our Armed Forces will be reshaped to tackle emerging and future threats.

Short version:-

In order to meet this new structure the Royal Air Force will:

• reduce by around 5,000 personnel to about 33,000 by 2015, and with an assumption, for now, of a requirement of about 31,500 by 2020;

withdraw the C-130 Hercules transport fleet ten years earlier than planned as we transition to the more capable and larger A400M;

withdraw the Sentinel surveillance aircraft once it is no longer required to support operations in Afghanistan;

• rationalise the RAF estate;

• retain Tornados, which will continue to operate in Afghanistan;

remove Harrier from service in the transition to a future fast jet force of Typhoon and JSF. This will mean a gap for carrier fast jet operations. JSF, like Harrier, will be operated jointly by RAF and Royal Navy pilots;

not bring into service the Nimrod MRA4; and

withdraw VC-10 and the three variants of TriStar aircraft from 2013 as we transition towards the more capable A330 future strategic transport and tanker aircraft.
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