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1. Red Dragon was a project between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Welsh Authorities [Footnote 1] for the development of the St Athan site in South Wales. The original plan comprised the following elements, with a cost of some £134 million excluding payments from the Welsh Authorities to MoD:

2. Meanwhile, in January 2003, MoD commissioned a strategic review of aircraft support [Footnote 2], which reported in July. The findings of this End-to-End Logistics Review eventually led to announcements in March and September 2004 that DARA’s fast jet repair business for the Harrier jump jet and Tornado bomber at St Athan would close and the repair work would be moved to one main operating base for each fleet. These announcements undermined the Red Dragon project. In November 2005 MoD announced that all DARA St Athan’s fast jet repair business would close by April 2007, so the super-hangar was no longer needed for its intended purpose.