Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"RN desperately needs new frigates"
I was trashed last year for making that remark - TBH the RN desperately needs just about everything these days - destroyers, submarines, frigates, supply vessels, assault ships, patrol boats...................... as forecast years ago on here the carriers have skewed things totally.
No, you were admonished for suggesting that the RN needed
extra frigates instead of carriers. That is not the same as saying "the RN desperately needs
new frigates". New frigates are needed because the T23 are unsurprisingly falling apart as they approach double their design life and costing far more than assumed to repair. The destroyers are actually in reasonable shape - bar the poor ILS contract which means spares are underprovided. This issue with the support ships is RFA pay and conditions and with the assault ships a doctrinal inconsistency (why assault ships if 3 Cdo Bde no longer exists as a real formation?).
You still can't explain what you think these extra frigates will do. Nor can you explain why "the carriers" seem to have caused all this.