You wonder why this story has appeared now?
We in the UK are about to get one of the most horrendous of SDRs. The Navy is really fighting its corner to keep both Carriers in program and also not to have the cost for the new Trident boats shoved into the MoD budget which will require someone losing something, probably at least one carrier.
Unfortunately the idiots in white hall and the treasurey see Trident as a weapon not as a political stick.
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