CONFIDENTIAL
3RD DRAFT
Malta are assigned to or earmarked for NATO. As a result of the
Government's decisions to concentrate the United Kingdom's defence
effort more fully in support of our priority NATO commitments,
NEAF squadrons will be disbanded or redeployed to the United Kingdom
and re-allocated to primary NATO tasks. Residual tasks in Cyprus will be
met by aircraft on detachment from the United Kingdom. Reductions have
already been made in the number of aircraft permanently based in
Cyprus in order to ease the accommodation problem there. In the
depending on the outcome of ongoing dicono wore with the Hong Kong Government,
Far Fast, the Royal Air Force will continue to deploy helicopters
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in support of the Hong Kong garrison but the Wessex helicopters
based in Singapore in support of Five Power Defence Arrangements will
be withdrawn and attachments of Nimrod aircraft will cease. The
reductions in our commitments detailed in Chapter I (paragraphs
to
) will permit the rundown of the Strategic Transport Force
to start in 1975.7
28. Royal Air Force General Purpose Forces are at present :-
a.
Strike/Attack
Vulcan B2s in Strike Command and
NEAF; Buccaneers in Strike Command
and RAF Germany; and Phantom FGR 28
in RAF Germany. (The latter are
being replaced by Jaguars in the
coming year and will then transfer
to the air defence role).
b. Reconnaissance
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Vulcan SR28 in Strike Command;
Canberras in Strike Command and NEAF:
and Phantom FGR2s in Strike Command
and RAF Germany.
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