Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2018 to Question 125089, what the ground-based air defence systems are which are operated by Army Air Defence Regiments; and what the out-service-dates are for each of those systems.

The Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) capability of the Army Air Defence Regiments is provided by Rapier and the Starstreak High Velocity Missile System. Under current plans their expected out of service dates are 2020 and 2026 respectively.

The Future Force GBAD Air Surveillance programme seeks to provide our future suite of capabilities and will ensure there is no capability gap.