Originally Posted by
WE Branch Fanatic
It is a quote from the Navy Lookout article that ORAC quoted, not a statement from the MOD/RN. NATO is currently having its largest exercise in over thirty years, the first part of which was is transatlantic reinforcement, moving forces into the Northern Norwegian Sea and conducting an amphibious landing. I was looking forward to a demonstration of of the carrier defending reinforcement shipping and amphibious forces from air and submarine threats.
Perhaps we should have built 3 or 4 ? Right now all that is being demonstrated is that these ships are not reliable