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Cost of RAF nuclear jet plan remains unknown
Western Mail
|October 31, 2025
MINISTERS still do not know when RAF jets will be able to carry nuclear weapons or how much the project will cost, the Commons spending watchdog has found.
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Sir Keir Starmer announced at the Nato summit in June that the UK would purchase 12 F-35A jets which could join the alliance’s airborne nuclear mission.
But in a report published today, the influential Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had still not set out how much it would cost to operate the new jets.
The committee said the project was still “at an early stage”, with the MoD “starting to understand” the requirements of being certified for the Nato nuclear mission.
The MoD told the committee that the F-35As were “20% to 25% cheaper” than the F-35Bs currently operated by the RAF and Royal Navy “and slightly cheaper to support”.
But with the additional training and personnel required to join the nuclear mission, the committee said it was a “reasonable assumption that this may end up proving more expensive”.
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