The NAvy doesnt' want trident particularly - if you read any of the books on naval policy during the earlu 1980'd you'll see we did out damndest to shove the bill elsewhere. If we could get rid of it we would, its cost forced us to scrap lots of much more useful ships like escorts/SSN's = to say the Navy hasn't made sacrifices is untrue - we have.
Given that the Jaguar has a rapidly approaching out of service date, then it to me would have made more sense to scrap the jagur on purely cost grounds. I know its a useful plane to have around, but if its replacement is about to enter service, then surely it should be first up. Scrapping a plane who's replacement is 10-12 years away is idiotic. But since when has this Government done anything sensible? (other than order CVF
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