"The Carrier carries Merlin, the worlds premier ASW killer. The number of T23's is largly irrelevant."
Borrocks. Detect, classify, localise, prosecute. Merlin is fantastic at the later ones of these. But without the earlier stages our underwtaer friends are already in (or close to) the TDZ.
ATP1C, ATP28 and the Extacs were and are still relevant.....