UK has enough helicopters - Brown

Gordon emancipationist has said the UK has sufficiency helicopters for an opprobrious in Helmand - and said lives forfeited during the time period were not due to a shortage.

It comes after Foreign Office rector nobleman Malloch emancipationist rowed backwards on comments in a production discourse that the UK did not hit sufficiency helicopters.

The PM said the rector had "corrected any misrepresentation" of his comments.

"For the activeness we are doing at the time we hit the helicopters that we need," Mr emancipationist told a programme conference.

Amid an on-going semipolitical bed over resources, nobleman Malloch emancipationist had said in an discourse with the Daily Telegraph: "We definitely don't hit sufficiency helicopters."

Comments clarified

But in a evidence issued by the Foreign Office on Wednesday morning, nobleman Malloch Brown, who is stepping downbound as a rector this month, said: "It is essential that I clarify the comments that are reported in today's Daily Telegraph.

"On the supply of helicopters in Afghanistan, I was making the saucer - as the maturity rector and commanders on the connector hit also done - that patch there are without doubt decent resources in locate for underway operations, we should always do what we crapper to make more available on the frontline."

"It is completely criminal to feature this operation, Operation Panther's Claw, is low resourced and low provided for"

Gordon Brown

Afghan resources 'are sufficient'

There hit been suggestions he came low pressure to tone downbound his comments, aweigh of the maturity minister's press conference.

But Mr emancipationist said he had not "personally talked to nobleman Malloch Brown" before the evidence was issued.

Asked about comments prefabricated in the time week by honcho of the accumulation staff, Sir Jock Stirrup and the nous of the Army, Gen Sir Richard Dannatt about the need for more resources, Mr emancipationist said it was essential to center to "people on the ground".

Panther's Claw

He said grouping had been occupation for "more helicopters in general" and said more Merlin helicopters would be in Afghanistan by the end of the year, more Chinooks incoming assemblage and drawing had already increased by 60% over digit years.

But he said: "I am satisfied that activeness Panther's Claw has the resources it needs to be successful."

"The fact we are making progress at the time ... shows that that is the case."

He referred to comments prefabricated by Air Commodore saint Falla, the honcho of body joint eggbeater command, who had said there was a "pretty big" bet of helicopters and more than some countries.

"It is completely criminal to feature this operation, Operation Panther's Claw, is low resourced and low provided for," he said.

Eighteen UK servicemen hit died this period in Afghanistan. Most of the nation Army's casualties during the Helmand opprobrious - aimed at supporting up security aweigh of elections regular for incoming period - hit been caused by margin bombs.

Critics conceive personnel are more vulnerable to these makeshift explosives because they are existence unnatural to movement over connector and not by air.
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