Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
the USN are on record as saying they have serious issues with transshipping anti-air and surface to surface missiles from ship to ship at sea
I suspect they're talking about their ship-launched VLS missiles. Which no-one (anywhere) RASes. They frequently RAS pallets of air-launched missiles with ease. But don't let that get in the way of the whataboutery.
It's a real shame the RN didn't think about what sort of RAS system and future support shipping it would need to support QEC. They'd have run a demonstrator programme and have a support shipping programme and everything. Oh wait......
Meantime, not a single shred of evidence that it's the carriers that are causing all the current issues with T45, SSN etc.