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Uncle Peter · 20-04-2015, 10:35

The decision to scrap MRA4 without a replacement wasn't far short of criminal negligence and we are now in a position where the Americans are bailing us out by sending a few reserve P3 Orions to Scotland to protect the coastal waters around our installations.

All well and good pitching to buy P8 Poseidons or the Japanese Kawasaki P1's but surface wise for ASW capability we only have the Type 23 which is a noisy old ship more than a generation away from where it needs to be to counter advances in submarine quietening technology.

Yet again we'll be left with a void approaching a decade where our shores are not suitably defended.

20-04-2015, 10:35	#11
Uncle Peter Inactive Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: on holiday by mistake Age: 56 Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2 Posts: 5,977	Re: RAF wants a new £2bn aircraft fleet The decision to scrap MRA4 without a replacement wasn't far short of criminal negligence and we are now in a position where the Americans are bailing us out by sending a few reserve P3 Orions to Scotland to protect the coastal waters around our installations. All well and good pitching to buy P8 Poseidons or the Japanese Kawasaki P1's but surface wise for ASW capability we only have the Type 23 which is a noisy old ship more than a generation away from where it needs to be to counter advances in submarine quietening technology. Yet again we'll be left with a void approaching a decade where our shores are not suitably defended.