I didn't understand this ⬆️ (Mega-Google-In-an-MS-fashion?) but think it's positive on the US deal?
I still think it's a not well thought through plan that panders toTrump, but I guess they wanted the NATO announcement optics.
Britain’s new fast jets will be based at RAF Marham, in Norfolk, and will have to operate from land-based air strips because they lack the technology to use the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers.
The Government refused to be drawn on where it would store the B61/12 thermonuclear gravity bombs the jets would carry, which would also be bought from America.
The UK will deploy the jets as part of Nato’s nuclear dual-capable aircraft mission. It is understood that there are no plans for the UK to develop its own, domestically produced airborne nuclear weapons, like France.
Last year, The Telegraph revealed that Pentagon documents showed America was planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years, having removed nuclear missiles from the UK in 2008, after judging that the Cold War threat from Moscow had diminished.
According to procurement contracts for a new facility at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, the US intends to place nuclear warheads three times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb at the air base.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9930e4071bc0ef87