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C. Offensive Support

Harriers in Strike Command and RAF

d. Air Defence

e.

*

f.

Maritime Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare

Royal Air Force Regiment

Germany; and Jaguars in Strike

Command.

Phantom FG1s and FGR28 in Strike

Command; Lightnings in Strike Command,

RAF Germany and NEAF: Bloodhound

surface-to-air missiles in RAF

Germany and NEAF; and Shackletons

for airborne early warning in

Strike Command.

Nimrods in Strike Command and NEAF.

Low-level air defence squadrons

equipped with Rapier or Tigercat

surface-to-air missiles or anti-

aircraft guns in Strike Command and

RAF Germany; and field squadrons for

the local ground defence of airfields,

in Strike Command, RAF Germany and

NEAF. The squadrons in Strike Command

are available for detachment as

required; units are currently serving

in Northern Ireland, Oman, Hong Kong

and Belize.

bol

g.

Air Mobility

(1)

Strategic Transport

VC108, Comets, Belfasts and

Britannias in Strike Command.

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