RAF Scrapping Nimrod Fleet

“Nimrod would have continued to provide long-range maritime and overland reconnaissance – including over the UK – anti-submarine surveillance, air-sea rescue coordination, and perhaps most importantly, reconnaissance support to the Navy’s Trident submarines.” Experts also argue that deaths at sea will be inevitable as helicopters cannot operate beyond 200 miles from a coast. In the past, Nimrods have saved lives by dropping life rafts to stranded sailors, as in 1998 when 10 fishermen were saved. (www.telegraph.co.uk) More...