Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
Tourist - my comment was based on the likely use of any RN vessel - the surface fleet spends almost all of its time on anti-piracy patrols, anti-drug patrols, humanitarian relief and small scale interventions
The QE & PoW will suck personnel and cash out of the rest of the fleet - and we'l lprobably only be able to have one active at any time
far better to have four Mistral's TBH
Utter cr@p.
Understandable that a passing civvy might think that, perhaps, because that's what the recruitment videos show, but actually the RN does other stuff most of the time.
Biggus
All too true.....