| Risaldar Singh | 09 Oct 2017 6:23 a.m. PST |
It looks as if the true cost of Carrier Enabled Power Projection may very well be the loss of amphibious power projection: link Could be hogwash, could be the Admiralty playing games by pretending to sacrifice one of the service's Holy Cows in order to fend off further cuts but Commanders of UK Maritime Forces don't usually resign over "pure speculation": link |
| Winston Smith | 09 Oct 2017 7:01 a.m. PST |
Maybe someone thinks that that's a good way to stay out of trouble. |
| Jcfrog | 09 Oct 2017 7:39 a.m. PST |
Brexit, isolation, no more foreign beaches, except maybe via Easyjet to Minorca.
No politics, just wargames.
We need brit no marked genre, in teashirt, and shorts, marines, for overseas aquatic intervention.
Boonie hats, allowed. |
| Tgunner | 09 Oct 2017 7:55 a.m. PST |
Yeah, letting trouble find you is always the best path. |
| foxweasel | 09 Oct 2017 8:08 a.m. PST |
Lots of maybe, possibly, could be etc. It's the same every defence review. |
| Risaldar Singh | 09 Oct 2017 3:11 p.m. PST |
I tend to be cautious but time will tell. But given that there is no fat left… |
| Lion in the Stars | 09 Oct 2017 7:13 p.m. PST |
Considering how badly the UK has slashed the Royal Navy these days, I wouldn't be surprised. |
| nsolomon99 | 09 Oct 2017 8:51 p.m. PST |
Be easier and more convenient to fight the next enemy on the beach at Dover, surely?! |
| Lion in the Stars | 09 Oct 2017 9:46 p.m. PST |
Lots more convenient to fight on someone else's beach, says the USA. Then there's almost no chance of someone taking over your factories! |
| Risaldar Singh | 10 Oct 2017 4:33 a.m. PST |
The beach at Dover sounds like a good plan as long as you don't slash the army too. Oh, wait… |
| CampyF | 30 Oct 2017 6:03 a.m. PST |
So, the Royal navy will consist of a big carrier, maybe a few destroyers, if they survive budget cuts. Planes for the carrier, if they survive the budget cuts, and 25 admirals? Sound about right? |
| Deadles | 31 Oct 2017 10:35 p.m. PST |
The question arises: What's the point of amphibious ships hauling light infantry? They're basically for humanitarian interventions and colonial interventions (total waste of time). Europe needs more conventional forces than colonial policing units for failed third world states that can't get their own affairs in order. After all the main threat is still Russia and the US is increasingly pulled in too many directions. That means submarines, armoured units, fighter bombers, integrated air defence (most of Europe has no AD and is in a worse position than Iraq in 1991), electronic warfare, conventional warships and logistics to support them. |
