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Old 19th Oct 2010, 17:54
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Unbelievable waste

You mean like the £ 4.8 Bn already spent on MRA4. However much it will be on 2 carriers, 1 of which will need to be sold straight away and the other won't have any aircraft to fly off it. Oh and if they do decide to sail it anywhere they won't have the long range maritime picture because we have slashed the surface fleet, sub surface fleet and long range MPA.

This isn't a strategic defence review no matter how hard they try to sell it; we all know the capabilities ARE required. This is an immediate survival exercise to prevent the country from going bankrupt. In the meantime forget any claims we had to the Malvinas, North Atlantic trade routes etc etc. We are now about to become a third world nation who for some reason still has a nuclear deterrent.
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