National security officials did not fully understand the ramifications of scrapping Britain's Nimrod fleet, a former defence minister has warned.
Sir Gerald Howarth said destroying the planes, which had a base at RAF Kinloss, which were under development but not completed and delivered, after the Strategic Defence and Security Review had left the biggest capability gap across the UK's defence structure.
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