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Proceeding contribution from Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 20 April 2009. It occurred during Debate on Defence Procurement.

Defence Procurement

The hon. Gentleman has a reputation in the House for perhaps not telling things exactly as they are. I said that I do not think that we should go ahead with the big carriers and that we need to have smaller carriers such as HMS Ocean—probably three or four of them. That is not the same as saying we should not have carriers. While the hon. Gentleman is sitting in his place, may I please ask him about the JSF—a point that I raised earlier? What about the weapons load? Is it correct that there will have to be a separate armament load for the Tornado and the Typhoon legacy aircraft and a different weapons load for the JSF?

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
491 c119 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed forces Defence Arms trade Defence equipment Armoured fighting vehicles Finance Iraq Helicopters Nuclear weapons Peacekeeping operations Procurement Proliferation Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Military aircraft Training Vehicles Warships Uniforms Afghanistan Body armour Aircraft carriers Devonport Dockyard Typhoon aircraft F-35 aircraft Future rapid effect system Trident Voyager aircraft Type 45 destroyers
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