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Mr. Wareing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when a decision was taken to deploy air-launched Cruise missiles on (a) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and (b) Royal Air Force aircraft.
Mr. Ian Stewart
There are no plans to deploy air-launched cruise missiles (ALCMs) on any aircraft in Europe. ALCMs are deployed on strategic bombers of the United States air force. In his 1985 Montebello implementation proposals, SACEUR called for, inter alia, the deployment of a tactical air to surface missile (TASM); no decisions have yet been taken on how best to meet this requirement.