Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Boffin
I didn't post a full list of deployments but you know we have at least one escort, a tanker and an RFA support vessel in the Gulf normally for example.......
That'll be HMS Montrose - noted as long-term deployment out there. Plus one Bay class and 3-4MCMV, none of which are task group ships. Tanker less critical now we have HMS Jufair. Wave Ruler was out there for six months earlier in the year, one of six and a half tankers. Plus we currently have a Littoral Response Group (two amphibs and two escorts joining) in the Med.
Originally Posted by
Asturias56
I can't understand why you won't admit the point that a Carrier Group means we're doing less elsewhere. I agree that a CG is a strong force which we haven't had for a decade - but it comes at an operational cost.
Because the "evidence" appears to be solely based on your opinion.
I repeat - if only those who claim to have "flagged" this understood what they were talking about.