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SDSR: Wildcat safe but Chinook order and Puma upgrade numbers cut

19th October 2010 - 19:50 GMT | by Tony Osborne in London

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The British government is to cut the number of Chinooks it planned to order as part of its Future Helicopter Strategy, it has been revealed.

Announcing the results of the first Strategic Defence Review of the UK armed forces for more than a decade on 19 October, UK Prime Minister David Cameron also confirmed that the procurement of the Lynx Wildcat was safe.

The Puma upgrade would continue, but a statement made to the RAF Families Federation by the Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton the same day states that 24 Pumas will be upgraded rather than the 28

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