btw Roland good post, at least you explain why you don't agree
My friend, go back over your posts and responses. You will find that all this has been explained to you before.
You choose to ignore it, becaue you have decided you know best. Ergo, experienced professionals (or ex professionals in my case) will now just take the p**s because to us your ideas are infantile and so is your obstinance.
That is not to say, you have nothing to offer and you raise some good points. You are also correct that the UK government has ****ed up completely the UKs maritime defence.
But the answer is not some plastic, littoral, airfix model... or any other of the UAV/airship nonsense.
IMO the requirements are changing rapidly & a 2025 MPA will look entire different then a P3 or Nimrod because of it.
No **** sherlock.
Forgive me for not worrying too much about 2025, with the possibility of a nuclear exchange once again rearing its head - only this time with decidedly non-rational actors in the loop - 2025 looks a little far off to being predicting too much.