Originally Posted by Roadster280
If the boats are still in Faslane, why are the ASW Sea Kings no longer there?
Not necessarily Sea Kings, but why isn't there a rotary ASW cover out of Prestwick? The thread is dealing with FW assets (or lack of) but the task of 819 was to sanitise the area for the boats leaving Faslane: a much better idea, I would have thought. If you're going to send out an enormously expensive piece of kit for 6+ weeks and are concerned about it being shadowed from the departure point, then make sure that it
isn't shadowed by going back to the 819 concept.