AWACS: Procurement
(asked on 11th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2023 to Question 182507 on AWACS: Procurement, what the cost to the public purse of each MESA radar will be.
This question was answered on 19th May 2023
The cost of procurement for the Multi-Role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar was around £60 million each; parts from the radars originally planned for aircraft four and five will be retained for spares allowing a saving/offset of initial procurement and future sustainment requirements from the overall programme cost. They will also add resilience to the spares supply chain to benefit aircraft availability.