Future Offensive Air Systems.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-16 April 2002-SMI: Future Offensive Air Systems (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15042002 Staff Requirement (Air) 425 - long-range, all-weather, precision attack system In July 1998, the UK government published its long-awaited Strategic Defence Review (SDR) which confirmed the Royal Air Force's Future Offensive Air Systems Programme.

Ranking second only to Eurofighter in importance and cost, the FOAS concept was conceived to replace the RAF Tornado GR.4 multi-strike and reconnaissance fleet around the year 2015. Staff Requirement (Air) 425 is a long-range, all-weather, precision attack system, for which nothing is ruled in, and nothing out, that will greatly enhance the RAF's commitment to NATO's operational capability for...

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