HC Deb 16 October 1975 vol 897 c794W
Mr. Warren

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what representations have been made by Her Majesty's Government to NATO to consider the HSA Nimrod as well as the Boeing E3A for the European early warning requirement.

Mr. William Rodgers

Before the decision was taken to concentrate further NATO studies on the AWACS E3A, we made sure that our allies were fully aware both of the potentialities of a development based on Nimrod and of the feasibility of extending our current national studies to embrace the NATO requirement.