Thread: Strategic Defence Review: MoD budget cuts of 8% by 2015
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Old 21-10-2010, 16:27   #56
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Re: Strategic Defence Review: MoD budget cuts of 8% by 2015
Why is the Nimrod being classed as an airbourne early warning platform? It isn't. When we wanted a replacement for the Avro Shackleton, a testbed Nimrod AEW was developed, it was ditched in favour of the E3 Awacs platform(also known as Sentry).

The Nimrod comes in two variants, the MR2 which is based at the Scottish base's and is a Maritime Patrol / Search and Rescue platform. The second model is the R1, that is based at RAF Waddington and performs task such as electronic jamming, intelligence gathering, etc. It's not an AEW platform.
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