Originally Posted by
Training Risky
... I think on balance both fleets should have been kept and the 2 x CVF made smaller to a CVS size to take a uprevved GR9/FA2 capability. (I know - cloud cuckoo land).
The one thing MoD does finally seem to have accepted is that building smaller ships always ends up costing more in the long run. Hulls are surprisingly cheap, longer ships use less fuel than shorter ones, and it's easier to upgrade something that's already got heaps of space. Plus there's more bunkerage, stores, munitions, fewer RASes, fewer port calls on the way to wherever.