All of this stuff about sea lanes is fine, but my concern is that if these rumours / leaks are correct, then we will have an escort "force" that is so small as to be practically invisible for the majority of the tasking that the RN is currently doing day-to-day.
And this seems the height of folly in exchange for something I don't think we need (Successor) and something else that we can't use by itself (QE Class). Wish financial things were different, but this makes the surface RN look like a self-licking lollipop - and that's always presuming that we have a reasonable airgroup to fly off QE/PoW, and I see no evidence of sufficent Dave-C, any MASC (let alone COD) being provided in the budget. If we can't fund it to do it properly, then we probably shouldn't be doing it at all.
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