Ms Dan TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he plans to procure additional high velocity missiles from Shorts Missile Systems of Belfast. [102475]
Type of aircraft Main locations Date first entered service Life expectancy(approximate figures in years) Bulldog University Air Squadrons 1972 30 Dominie Cranwell 1965 50 Jetstream Cranwell/Culdrose/Yeovilton 1972 50 Hercules Lyneham 1966 45 Hawk Valley/Leeming/Boscombe Down 1976 35 Nimrod Kinloss 1969 40 VC10 Brize Norton 1966 45 Canberra Marham 1951 55 Sea King Yeovilton/Prestwick/Culdrose/and on RN ships, RAF Search and Rescue Units 1969 45 Chinook Odiham 1980 35 Puma Benson and Aldergrove 1971 40 Gazelle Wattisham/Disforth/Middle Wallop/Odiham/and other Army units 1974 45 Note:
Chinook are wired with a mixture of PVC/Nylon and PTFE (Poly Tetra Fluoro Ethylene).
(b) Poly-X wiring. No RAF aircraft contain Poly-X wiring. However, a small number of early Army and Royal Navy Lynx helicopters were delivered with Poly-X wiring. Few of these aircraft are now in service and much of the wiring on these will have been replaced during upgrades.
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Type of aircraft Main locations Date first entered service Life expectancy (approximate figures in years) Tornado Marham/Bruggen/Lossiemouth/Leeming/Coningsby/Leuchars/Mount Pleasant 1980 40 Tucano Linton-on-Ouse 1989 20 Harrier Wittering/Cottesmere 1987 30 Sentry Waddington 1991 35 Tristar Brize Norton 1984 30 Lynx Yeovilton 1976 45 BAe125 Northolt 1983 35 BAe146 Northolt 1986 30
§ Mr. KilfoyleI am pleased to announce that the Defence Procurement Agency has now signed a contract with Shorts Missile Systems for additional High Velocity Missiles for the Army. The contract is valued at around £200 million and will sustain around 550 jobs at Shorts Missile Systems, with a further 170 jobs also sustained across their sub-contractors in the United Kingdom.