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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Defence chiefs have last-minute doubts about £4bn carriers
Gen. Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman, the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, has written confidentially to all one-star and two-star officers in the British Ministry of Defence seeking their views on the next-generation aircraft carriers.

The last minute rethought was needed among officers from the three services as other weapons procurement such as the Super Lynx helicopter and third trance of the Eurofighter might have to be canceled to fund the carriers.

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