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year include:
46.
a. a Type 42 destroyer and three Type 21 frigates;
b. the 105mm light gun;
c. the Clansman range of combat net radios;
d. the Blowpipe man-portable missile system for
very-low-level air defence;
e. three strike/attack Jaguar squadrons; and
f. one strike/attack Buccaneer squadron.
Outstanding among a succession of new weapons systems which
will come into service in the period up to the middle 1980s are
a new class of anti-submarine cruisers, the first of which,
HMS Invincible, is under construction;
and the Multi-Role
Combat Aircraft, which has just entered a further stage of
development and is eventually expected to form about half the
planned combat front line strength of the Royal Air Force. In addi-
tion, the Lance tactical nuclear missile has been ordered from the
United States.
Reinforcement and Mobilisation
47. A thorough review of the United Kingdom's reinforcement and
mobilisation plans is being undertaken. We expect that, through
rationalisation and other measures to exploit available resources
to their full, movement time between the United Kingdom and the
continent for the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR)
reinforcements for British forces in Germany, will be reduced by about
30 per cent.
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