"U.K. Royal Navy Making Plans to Scrap Flagship HMS Ocean" Topic
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| Tango01 | 30 Nov 2015 10:17 p.m. PST |
"The U.K. Royal Navy flagship — the amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean (L12) — is slated for scraping in 2018, the U.K. Ministry of Defence confirmed this week.
The move to decommission the Royal Navy's largest ship, not mentioned in the MoD's latest Strategic Defence and Security Review, follows mere months after the completion of a $97.8 USD million upgrade. "HMS Ocean will not decommission early and will continue in service as planned well into this Parliament. As part of the SDSR process, the decision was taken not to extend her and to decommission her in 2018, in line with her 20-year life span," the MoD said in a statement…"
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| By John 54 | 10 Jan 2016 4:38 p.m. PST |
The whole article is utter crap, in short, no, there are no plans to scrap HMS Ocean in 2018. When, and only when, the two Elizabeth-class carriers are operational, will Ocean be looked at, and may even carry on as a Royal Marine Assault carrier, although, and this is just my opinion, I reckon it will be scrapped then, as am easy money saving option. John |
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