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  "textContent": "Air Marshal (Retd) Edward Stringer has warned that the UK is still designing forces around Cold War-era assumptions centred on large platforms and prolonged specification cycles.\n\nThe post UK defence must move beyond steel-era procurement, MPs told first appeared on UK Defence Journal.",
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