well 432 has just had its midlife update (considering last one rolled of production line in 1972) they'll probably out last the FRES programme. Is warrior update happening. So the Mech inf is going to still have to soldier on with that piece of junk called saxon.
As to the Navy what will the point of having the carriers be if we have no escorts to portect them?
The descision on the Herc's will come back to haunt us except Airbus catch up with the a400m is the plan now to replace the c130J with it by overworking the remaing airframes?