This is but one small can of worms in the Scottish Independence kitchen.
The yards are owned by the business groups within BAE and run for the contracts supporting the MOD, but the bases are owned by the MOD and run for them by BAE.
Should the Government make the MOD assign the bases to the Vietjock Armed Forces, there is no legal authority that can make the Peoples Democratic Republic of Jockistan take on BAE as managers.
This leaves the MOD open to all sorts of compensation claims from BAE.
Wee Eck may of course want to keep the Clyde naval facilities open for business (not just Scottish business) and provide the (English) MOD with a cost effective solution that beats opening Portsmouth.
All of this debate over affording the armed forces is based on the old fashioned idea of what Scotland needs. I would have thought that the MRA and Harrier Force destruction was a clear signal that times have changed.
The world still turns.