A £550 million contract for new surface-attack missiles will secure hundreds of UK jobs and provide unrivalled lethality for the UK’s F-35B Lightning jets, Defence Minister Jeremy Quin announced.
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SPEAR3 is a next-generation missile that can travel long distances at high-subsonic speed (Picture source: UK MoD)
