Which begs the question as to what happens when they need replacing. Where are the next generation of seedcorners coming from?
Question already posed some while back. Pretty much unanswerable...except for the obvious and currently politically unacceptable answer.
Nowhere.
As to the bigger question...are these beasts going to soak up more of the ever-shrinking, austerity driven, defence budget (and I suggest the NAO will have the final say on that)? Relatively speaking, the budget just got smaller (or stayed the same if you buy into some the views above). For the life of me, I can't see how this development has done anything to improve the prospects of a replacement MPA.