UK defense collapse-----Wheels are literally falling off the MoD thanks to lack of cash • The Register

Wheels are literally falling off the MoD thanks to lack of cash • The Register
"British military helicopters are at risk of crashing while wheels are literally falling off Army Land Rovers thanks to poor maintenance and funding cuts, according to a damning report by the Defence Safety Authority.

The DSA's six-monthly report, published earlier this week, is a blistering look at Ministry of Defence safety systems. 
Lieutenant General Richard Felton, who recently took post as the director-general of the DSA, took no prisoners in his first report.

He found, among many other things:

• Cuts to the defence budget are causing the irreparable loss of helicopter flying skills
• "Repeated incidents of Landrover wheels falling off"
• Increasing skills shortages within critical frontline engineering trades
• "Embryonic and fragile" safety management systems in RAF flying training units
• A shortage of nuclear-trained personnel in the Defence Nuclear Regulator
• Failures to inspect a naval fuel depot in Singapore for safety led to it being partly shut down

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