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Old 2nd Dec 2003, 03:50
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I'd like to see a much larger number of Frigates and Destroyers (at the expense of carriers and Trident boats and other useless means of empty nationalistic posturing).

I think you get a lot more warfighting capibility from a carrier than you get from frigates and destroyers. We could have had all the frigates and destroyers in the world in 1982 but without the carriers and Sea Harriers would have been up sh!t creek. The key is a balanced fleet.

You often complain about the dependancy on the US - this will (hopefully) go a long way towards reducing that dependancy.

I find it amazing that there is so much talk about the names, and not so much about real issues - whether the RN will have a large enough fleet to support them, manpower, delays (both CVF and JSF), lack of pilots, abandonment of SDR promises etc.

See also...

CVF delayed thread

And of course ...

Sea Jet

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