Originally Posted by
melmothtw
The point I'm making is that you need the gamut of capabilities to conduct a viable national defence, and just because a certain item of equipment may not have been designed for a specific purpose (OPVs and F-35s to protect oil and gas facilities, for example) that doesn't mean they don't have a place. Not rocket science.
And we have both of them. Plus a wide array of other assets that are equally if not more useful against the sort of threats that do bad things to seabed installations.