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Old 1st Oct 2017, 18:05
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HMS OCEAN

Apparently Ocean is to be retired. As I understand it, Ocean has been on just about every sort of mission we've had in recent years and has proven to be perhaps the single most useful ship we have. She can't (IMHO) be replaced by the carriers, she seems much more flexible and probably more cost efficient for so many tasks. Why not either refit and keep her or replace her? In a task force, Ocean could be a helicopter carrier, making room for the carrier to take a full complement of fixed wings. That's just my thinking - am I wrong? Or is cost/manning the real reason for retiring her?
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