Future Carrier (Including Costs)

[WE Branch Fanatic]

Talking of ASW - ASW would have been part of Exercise Steadfast Defender at the start of the CSG21 deployment, and later Russian submarines were tracked by the frigates and Merlins in the Mediterranean, but I am sure that the CSG21 deployment was going to include an ASW exercise somewhere in the Indo-Pacific? Maybe it slipped under the radar, or has not yet happened.

I imagine that ASW capabilities will be of interest to allies like Oman in the face of the Iranian submarine threat,

Carrier Strike Group Looks Forward to a Busy Autumn in Indo-Pacific and Middle East