If you absolutely had to save £20 million per year and you were casting your eye over the surface fleet which would you choose for the chopping block? A Bay Class LPD(A), arguably one of the most versatile vessels in the inventory with a running cost of £17m per year or A River Class Offshore Patrol Vessel, with a running [...]
I want to borrow the catch line of the Canadian American Strategic Review (CASR) web site and make some “modest proposals” about maritime security operations, in the context of the SDSR and reducing budgets. There are many suggestions in the comments placed on other articles on this site that run along the lines that UK (in the form of the [...]
I am going to conclude the maritime section of the Think Defence Future Defence Review series of posts with a look at maritime logistics. This is a timely subject given the obvious display of logistics capability evident in Haiti. The first couple of posts are from guest contributors… Privatising the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – pragmatic or problematic? For those of [...]
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