MPs raise alarm over RAF Wedgetail delay

MPs raise alarm over RAF Wedgetail delay

MPs recently raised serious concerns over the UK’s air surveillance capability as the RAF’s E-7 Wedgetail programme faces continued delays and questions mount over its strategic resilience. Leading a Westminster Hall debate recently, Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway John Cooper warned that the gap left by the retirement of the E-3D Sentry aircraft has created a “credibility gap” in British air power. “The RAF has a problem: it cannot of…