With one exception: since the review's publication there has been simmering rage over a plan to scrap 80 Harrier jump-jets and Ark Royal, an aircraft-carrier, and to keep the RAF's Tornado fleet.

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And it saw the cancellation of equipment including Nimrod MRA4 reconnaissance planes and the early withdrawal of HMS Ark Royal and Harrier jump-jets.

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The government decided to retire the HMS Ark Royal and its fleet of Harrier jump jets in 2011, five years early.

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