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Liz Saville Roberts: “We are trapped in a death spiral. I do not think one could make it any more plain than that. We are trapped in a death…”

On the recordOctober 12, 2000
We are trapped in a death spiral. I do not think one could make it any more plain than that. We are trapped in a death spiral. The requirement to maintain our aging equipment is costing us more each year in repair costs, down time, and maintenance tempo. But we must keep this equipment in repair to maintain readiness. It drains our resources--resources we should apply to modernization of the traditional systems and development of new systems. Then the Secretary went on to say: So we stretch out our replacement schedules to ridiculous lengths and reduce the quantities of new equipment we purchase, raising the cost and still further delaying modernization. I do not think one can be any plainer than that.
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Liz Saville Roberts
Plaid Cymru
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Discussing the challenges of maintaining aging military equipment and the impact on modernization.

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