Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Sir Max Hastings on Radio4 BBC this morning rubbishing the Qe class as "totally irrelevant" and saying they should be sold off or mothballed.......................
Hastings believes anything not painted green and answering to the name "tank" is irrelevant. He also has a downer on the RN because he wasn't treated in the way he believes he merits on the way to a war nearly forty years ago. He particularly fears the carriers because they are perceived by those in green as being where all the money went that should have been spent on new tanks, arty etc. Whereas in fact, a relatively simple bit of research would tell him the money was spent on extensive Land UOR, abortive land vehicles recapitalisation, Typhoon and the submarine programmes.
As noted above maritime expertise is not one of his strong suits.