FB - The CVF/QEC is proceeding because it is needed and supported as part of Force 2020. The cancellation you refer would be for the second ship, NOT the capability. That you actually need two ships to provide anything like a continuous capability is slowly being acknowledged by MoD/Fox, if you read the various statements. The QECs could well end up going turn and turn about as the CVS operated.
I personally think we should have the carriers, but truth be known, if it wasn't for the byzantine contracts that the M.O.D. got themselves enmeshed in and the they could save as much as a penny, or even break even, by cancelling the carriers, this Government would do just that. Like I say though, I'd sooner have them than not.
As for the Typhoon, to lose it would compare with the Navy losing all its T45 Destroyers and the carriers.
FB
