Originally Posted by
old,not bold
Have they ever both been serviceable at the same time?
Yes. Both were actually very active in 2021. QNLZ is at sea today. PWLS will be once her shaft issue is repaired.
Originally Posted by
old,not bold
I would love to see a table showing how many Challenger 2 tanks, c/w trained crews and ammunition stocks, could have been on the inventory instead of those carriers. It beggars belief that the UK can scrape together only 14 tanks (updated model? Don't think so) to send to Ukraine. But of course the MoD knows that the days of the tank battle are long gone, everyone says so. Except that they haven't, as we now know from Ukraine.
What do you think these CR2 would be doing? Are you suggesting that we hold the things to donate to UKR? Or are you suggesting that the UK should be busy operating in UKR?
In common with many brown jobs, you appear to be under the impression that the army was somehow denuded in order to buy the ships. As opposed to the reality, which is that the army has spectacularly failed to articulate what it is for - and instead, has frittered its resources away on bodged equipment programmes (FRES anyone?) and defending infantry cap badges.