Report: MoD considering Eurofighter sale

Wednesday 20th August 2008, 8:56AM BST.

Report: MoD considering Eurofighter sale Britain may be forced to sell some of the Eurofighter jets it has ordered because of budget restraints at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), a report claims.

According to the Financial Times newspaper the MoD may be forced to sell some or all of its 88 Eurofighters to other countries like Japan, South Africa or India because of its estimated £2 billion budget deficit.

Britain entered into the Eurofighter consortium with Italy, Spain and Germany to seek cheaper fighters and in a previous contract had already ordered 144 of the planes.

Now, a source told the FT, it is investigating whether offloading Eurofighters currently on order is compatible with the consortium’s guidelines about the handing over of sensitive information about military hardware.