UK to purchase nuclear-carrying F-35A fighter jets

The UK government has to buy at least 12 new fighter jets that can carry atomic bombs, the Prime Minister has announced.

Sir Kire Stmper said at the NATO summit in the Hague that the new US -made F -35A Jates would join NATO’s airbourne nuclear mission.

The Prime Minister said, “We will buy at least 12 and we will enable these aircraft to bear nuclear weapons,” the Prime Minister said, “The growing nuclear threat response” was said in the purchase.

Downing Street says that this step is “the greatest strong of the UK atomic currency in one generation”.

The new F-35A jet can still carry traditional weapons, but we have the option to be equipped with America’s atomic bombs.

NATO’s air nuclear missions include affiliated aircraft which are equipped with American B61 bombs. Seven other countries, including the US, Germany and Italy, already use jets.

The use of nuclear weapons will require the NATO’s atomic plan group as well as the authority of the US President and the British Prime Minister.

The US already has pre-tainted stocks of B61 bombs in Europe. The Defense Think Tank Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) of Justin Bronch said that the US would still control their release and use in the event of war. This can prove to be controversial with the UK being dependent on the US.

During an immediate question in Parliament on Wednesday, Orthodox MP Lincoln Jop asked if there would be a dual-key system about weapons deployed from airplanes, “ie Brits cannot use it without saying American”.

Border Security Minister Dame Angela Eagle said that the current decision is about joining the NATO nuclear mission that would require an agreement of all 31 colleagues.

“Britain will always retain the right to participate on the basis of that governance, or also to participate,” he said.

Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper said: “In the era of radical uncertainty, we can no longer take peace for peace, which is why my government is investing in our national security.”

Defense Secretary John Heli on Wednesday told the BBC breakfast that the investment would “strengthen the NATO-cooler deterior which comes from this nuclear capacity”.

Speaking in Hague before the NATO summit, Hele said the program would support 20,000 jobs and more than 100 companies in the UK in the supply chain.

NATO general secretary Mark Rute called the announcement “another strong British contribution to NATO”.

The new fast will be based in Raf Marham at Jet Norfolk.

The decision to buy F-35A jet will be seen as a win for RAF-which has long been advocating for a long range fighter that can set a large variety of bombs and missiles.

The F -35B variant operated by RAF and Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm has a small range and can carry less weapons.

With its small take -off and vertical landing capacity, the F -35B may be operated from the Royal Navy’s two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales.

F-35as work from traditional runways.

The UK currently has only a delivery system for large strategic nuclear weapons – was launched with its pawn class submarines through trident ballistic missiles.

While the trident missiles are built and maintained in the US, the Warheads on missiles are made and maintained in the UK. Civil governments have stressed that their use would not depend on the US – so it is described as the “independent preventive” of Britain.

RAF Jets were capable of carrying small strategic nuclear weapons by 1998-when UK-designed and We177 bombs were retired from service.

Mr. Bronch said that it would take time for RAF to “return to nuclear game”. He said that the most obvious advantage for the UK to buy F -35AS would be his long range and the fact that they can carry a wide range of traditional weapons.

The decision follows the strategic defense review, which the Defense Secretary Hele said, “We confirm that we face new nuclear risks, with growing, modernization and diversification of their nuclear arsenal in other states”.

And on Tuesday, the government published National security strategy In which it has been said that the UK should “be actively prepared for the possibility of the UK’s motherland, which is potentially in a war -time scenario, for directly to danger”.

Sir Keer has promised to meet a new NATO target to spend 5%of the UK GDP on national security by 2035.

At the NATO Summit, 32 member counties are expected to agree on the target, which is going to the 3.5% core defense, with the rest on defense-related areas.