Originally Posted by
pr00ne
Your description of why HMS Dragon is delayed makes perfect sense, but it does raise the question of WHY the RN chose to deploy that vessel and not one of the other two or three operational T45 Destroyers?
What other two or three operational T45's...?
In fact Duncan was the only one of the six that was active and operational at the time, and had just returned from live fire exercises off the Welsh coast. The question is why she wasn't sent, she'd be in the Med by now at least. Daring, Diamond & Defender are in long term refits (Daring now for over 8 years, Defender for nearly 3 years & Diamond for over 2 years) which leaves Dragon and Dauntless. Dauntless had only just gone into a Maint period the week or so before, and Dragon had gone into a Maint just before Xmas, so, for whatever reason it was deemed Duncan couldn't go, Dragon was the only choice, being closer to end of Maint period, but wasn't going to be immediately available to go.