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...Some defence experts have drawn comparisons between Ajax and Nimrod, the refurbished maritime patrol aircraft scrapped in 2010 at a cost of £4bn without a single aircraft becoming operational....
...The move in 2010 to scrap the troubled Nimrod submarine hunter programme had been “a pretty tough decision”, he said....
...“The loss of Nimrod has created a potentially lethal gap in our defensive armoury....
...“There is a revival in underwater warfare,” said Peter Roberts, who until January 2014 was a Royal Navy officer and who worked closely with the US military and intelligence services....
...says Peter Roberts, senior research fellow for Sea Power and Maritime Studies at the Royal United Services Institute....
...He designed posters for Sydney’s Nimrod Theatre and produced Art Book, a collection of images that played with the themes of appropriation and collage....
...Even in music, “Greensleeves”, “Nimrod” and “Jerusalem”, which deeply define the core of the British mood, do not refer to the sea. Trailing far behind are “A Sea Symphony” and perhaps “Tintagel”....
...“The 9 per cent yield is clearly attractive,” Stephen Peters, investment trust analyst, tells me....
...“I applaud him,” said Peter Rogers, chief executive of Babcock International, the naval services group....
...Peter Luff, defence procurement minister, told the Financial Times that some of the kit axed in the defence review – including the Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft – might still find a home abroad....
...Peter Luff, defence procurement minister, told the Financial Times this week that he was hopeful of finding a buyer for the Harrier, the pride of the Falklands war, in order to spare them from an untimely...
...The good news for the industry is that only one of the top 15 largest equipment projects – BAE’s Nimrod surveillance aircraft – has been cancelled altogether, while programmes such as the Astute submarine...
...Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, is an avid collector and his interest has dragged up the market....
...“Each one of us is captured by a history: Mike and the executive team had a horrendous task to re-engineer the contractual arrangements around Nimrod and Astute,” says Mr Olver....
...Two projects that have caused the company headaches in the past, the Nimrod patrol plane and Astute submarine, are continuing through the development stages without profit, Mr Turner said....
...No similar attention is being paid to the crews of the ship or the RAF Nimrod that braved the storm to save them....
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