Onceapilot
Expensive - maybe, maybe not in the grand scheme of things and compared with other MOD projects.
Vulnerable? Is that because people have decided we might go to war in the Pacific against the People's Republic of China on our own, and they have advanced missiles? Or because an unarmed and unhardened ship got damaged by an anti ship missile? You do realise that warships can shoot down missiles and that enemy ISTAR can be disrupted? How many carrier based aircraft have been destroyed by enemy action aboard ship in the last thirty years, and how many sitting on airfields?
Surely you are aware there are carriers and similar warships deployed on operations?
Last edited by WE Branch Fanatic; 15th Oct 2016 at 19:23.