Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Agree that the Industrial Strategy wasn't brilliantly handled - the builders could see then coming a long way off. (see Harland & Wolff right now) - but they were a lot more expensive than planned even so. And of course they then decided that a Merlin helicopter would be nice for the follow-on vessels. Constant pressure to increase size and complexity. I'm sure these Arsenal ships would turn out the same.
Care to explain exactly what that did to the ship in terms of increasing size and complexity?