Originally Posted by
ORAC
..."Aside from the question of funding, it is understood that officials at Defence Equipment and Support were starting to realise that a cheap warship without the array of expensive radars, sensors and weapons would struggle to operate in....."
The US seems to have come to the same conclusion with the Littoral Combat Ship. Surprise, surprise, a ship with minimal sensors and weapons turns out to be not much of a warship...who would of thought that???
