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Old 23rd Jul 2021, 07:48
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Not_a_boffin
 
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Originally Posted by SASless
Boffin,

Had the buy been eight instead of six....would that have mitigated the current problems by having two additional ships to fill the holes in the Schedule....assuming they could get underway on Ops themselves?
Yes. But we didn't. Because a certain one-eyed Scottish financial genius decided that we could fight two land wars simultaneously, way above the planning assumptions in terms of both duration and scale, on the same budget......
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