Well I would expect a former worker on PAAMS to be more reliable that Lewis Page who left the Navy a long time ago and isn't close to the program.
Yes the Type 45 is expensive but I still don't agree with Lewis Pages article or his argument that AEGIS would have been a better route given the problem yet again that the UK isn't going to get the source code for the F-35 so I doubt we'd get the source for the AEGIS thus as one poster said, we'd have to spend more money to bring AEGIS up to the standard we need due to getting given an inferior system for export.
The trials from the barge as I understand it were to allow testing of the missile and system while the Type-45s were being built to make integration easier.
Anyway we don't know what the failure is and how serious.
As for Carlo Kopp, well, I've heard enough and put him in the same basket as Lewis Page.
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