FB11, you are clearly from the school of the Tripwire Strategy - escalation and de-escalation obviously not part of your game plan. Perhaps while you are at it you would like to defend UK airspace by blasting everything that files out of the sky! But I can't fault you for trying to find a role for the most expensive warship we have ever built without a Carrier Group to defend!
...and while we are on the subject, are you suggesting that we will never need AD capable aircraft to defend the carrier group - now that would be a revelation for the FAA agenda! We could send T45 to defend the Falklands and everyone else can come home, and we can stop using the islands as a reason to argue for the Carrier. Now that is an argument worth pursuing, but maybe in a different forum.
Last edited by Capt P U G Wash; 14th Mar 2011 at 23:32.