Airsound
Fair enough - but given all the talk of deploying the carrier group to the Far East I thought it worth mentioning the way the deployment will include NATO activities and coalition operations in the Middle East. By the way, HMS
Prince of Wales will soon return to sea.
Watch this space!
A56
Actually we are only losing two - fewer than many predicted. HMS
Monmouth has been in a state of very low readiness for a while now, awaiting refit with many systems stripped for spares and a skeleton crew. HMS
Montrose is currently forward deployed in the Middle East and will not return to the UK for some time - next year I think. It is sad to see them go, but better to put the money into keeping the rest of the Type 23s going (in some cases until the middle of the next decade), and recruiting more people.
I would not be surprised if one of them is not used as a static training vessel in the same way that HMS
Bristol was for many years.