Originally Posted by
Biggus
So presumably that means having enough suitably trained manpower to crew both at once?
Biggus go to the top of the class!
That is the key element. The RN is haemorrhaging people at a frightening rate. I was on a surface platform emerging from refit only yesterday and was shocked at the number of guys who had 'put their papers in.' MEs, WEs, Warfare, Chefs it does not seem to be any particular branch.
The principle reason seems not to be money, or length of deployments, but simply that they bounce from one crisis to another and nobody knows what is going on.
QE/PoW will only work if there are personnel of all branches to man it and keep it at sea.
No airfield, no need for aircraft!
Regards
Mortmeister