Jimlad - I 'm sure that the T45 situation is (relatively) short term due to resolvable technical issues (and maybe some short term cash shortage?) but I still worry that we're ADDING roles when we clearly don't have enough vessels to do what we currently want to do.
If we had a couple more 45's, maybe 16 26s and a couple more Astutes coming as well as the manpower to man them I'd say we could do it - but today's papers are full of another SDR after the election with a 60day mini-Review underway now at No.10 and no-one seems to think there'll be more $$$