Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Thanks Boffin - didn't they say that one of the reasons 2 of the T45's were cancelled was because the T26's were better value or similar? only a hazy recollection...........
I think they were calling it Global Combat Ship back then. It was more an excuse for binning the two extra 45s than anything else. I suspect that someone explained what the one-off costs of two Sampson and four WR 21 would entail.
It may also have been around the time all sorts of bizarre things were being done to smooth budgets. ISTR that was about the time Jim Hutton slipped the delivery date on the carriers by two years, while still keeping the same resources on the programme.