RAF cuts Announced as UK Mulls Libya No-fly Zone

RAF cut jobs and planes. Armed Forces on operations, training to be deployed, or recovering from missions, will escape cull, but those due from Afghanistan in April could still lose their jobs.
RAF cuts Announced as UK Mulls Libya No-fly Zone
Two Nimrod MRA4 reconnaissance aircraft at the BAE Systems factory at Woodford in Cheshire on February 1, 2011. Nine new RAF Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft, which cost nearly £4bn to build, are being dismantled behind giant screens at BAE Woodford. Six former military chiefs of staff said destroying the spy planes opened a 'massive gap in British security'. Unions have also condemned the destruction. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Two Nimrod MRA4 reconnaissance aircraft at the BAE Systems factory at Woodford in Cheshire on February 1, 2011. Nine new RAF Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft, which cost nearly £4bn to build, are being dismantled behind giant screens at BAE Woodford. Six former military chiefs of staff said destroying the spy planes opened a 'massive gap in British security'. Unions have also condemned the destruction. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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