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JOINT COMBAT AIRCRAFT BASE CONTENDERS

The five front-running RAF bases to be one of two homes for the RAF's new Joint Combat Aircraft (JCA) are RAF Leeming, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Marham, RAF Lossiemouth and RAF St Mawgan.

The first phase of the basing study has concluded that RAF Leeming, which had not previously been considered, may be a suitable option and it will therefore be considered along with the other bases in the second phase of work which will report later in the year.

The first phase has also concluded that RAF Kinloss, RAF Wittering and RNAS Yeovilton are less likely to be future JCA bases; primarily because of environmental issues at Wittering and Kinloss and the length of the runways at Yeovilton and Kinloss.

The announcement of selected bases will be made later in the year.

Notes:

1. JCA is a sophisticated multi-role aircraft that provides the flexibility that modern operations require and will form the basis of the RAF's future strike capability.

2. The study into the future basing of the JCA was set up on 12 October 2020 Minister for the Armed Forces, Adam Ingram.

3. The JCA basing project is at an early stage and assumptions may change. Therefore it remains possible that the working group could revisit these discounted options in future. At present the review is working on assumption we require two bases.

4. The JCA Basing Working group initially considered RAF Kinloss, RAF Lossiemouth, RAF St Mawgan, RAF Marham, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Wittering and RNAS Yeovilton as potential bases to support JCA.

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