HC Deb 24 July 1991 vol 195 cc700-1W
Mr. McFall

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, further to figure 4 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates", what are the reasons for Fishbed and Flogger aircraft no longer being included in the categories of nuclear-capable aircraft.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

Fishbed was excluded because this type was no longer considered to remain in the inventory of Soviet nuclear capable aircraft covered by this figure by the end of 1990.

Flogger is included in the total shown, but the aircraft was inadvertently omitted from the list of Soviet aircraft types in the key.

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