UK Wants to Buy US Fighter Jets Capable of Using Tactical Nuclear Weapons - Reports

NAMPA / Sputnik
2025-06-01
MOSCOW, June 1 (RIA Novosti) - The UK government wants to buy US fighter jets capable of using tactical nuclear weapons, in particular free-fall bombs, the Times newspaper claims. As the newspaper notes, the purchase of the planes will be the largest UK defense expansion since the Cold War. UK Defence Secretary John Healey and the chief of general staff, Adm​​​. Sir Tony Radakin, plan to buy US-made fighter jets capable of launching free-fall bom......
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