Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2023 to Question 120884 on Watchkeeper WK450, how many Watchkeeper platforms are operational.
Details of the number of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) in the UK Armed Forces are published on an annual basis on the government's website. The most recent publication can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-equipment-and-formations-2022.
For reasons of operational sensitivity we do not release figures on the current availability of any platform.