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RAF Tornado contract secures 600 UK jobs

A £125 million MOD contract to maintain, repair and upgrade the RAF's Tornado fast jets has secured more than 600 British engineering jobs. 

Highly-skilled work will be carried out on the Tornado GR4 fleet to ensure they are ready to support operations over the next 5 years, as they have done in Afghanistan and Libya.

The work will take place at RAF Marham in Norfolk, RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, RAF Leeming in Yorkshire and at BAE Systems sites in Warton and Samlesbury.

The revised contract with BAE Systems will result in savings of up to £90 million for the UK taxpayer compared to the original agreement. The savings are on top of £1.3 billion already delivered by MOD and BAE Systems since the start of the original contract in 2006.

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