Originally Posted by
chevvron
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.
Sadly not. The ship has a full complement, the reason it's taking a little longer is that she's just come out of a very short docking period to fix a particular issue..But before docking down she had to deammunition, which is why she's now back on UHAF.
Nice try. Now remind me again why the RAF requires the Navy to provide defence for the F35 force operating from an unhardened air base within range of a Hezbollah OWAS threat? For the avoidance of doubt this is norlt crab-bashing. The responsibility lies firmly with those in MB who thought that not providing HAS or GBAD on a base within range of Hezbollah was a tolerable risk...
ETA : Not that this absolves the Starmbot of being a bell end.....