Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials have released further details of the UK's plans to upgrade the Royal Air Force's (RAF's) Harrier GR7 ground-attack aircraft to the enhanced GR9/9A configuration. Worth at least ￡480 million ($694 million), the modernisation effort has taken on greater importance since it was announced earlier this year that the Royal Navy's (RN's) Sea Harrier FA2 fighters will be removed from service between 2004 and 2006 (Jane's Defence Weekly 6 March).
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