Originally Posted by
Not_a_boffin
Easy Tiger, lest someone point out the absurdity of the RAF needing to ask the Navy to send a ship a couple of thousand miles to defend the service's premier airbase in the Med against an air threat......
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Problem is the Navy doesn't have enough personnel to crew the ship so it's not going anywhere for a while. You'd have expected the PM to find that out before commtting to the task but he seems to be running out of brain capacity.