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It is definitely worth keeping Super-B in service as she has a special fit and facilities for deploying special forces, ie. SBS. She also carries a Mystic-class DSRV. If she's scrapped, the fleet will be without either of these capabilities until a suitably modified Astute comes online. To lose the first capability will be a serious blow, and marks the first time in decades we've been without it.
The MoD has a poor record for opportunistic scrapping of damaged vessels as a cost-cutting expedient. Navweaps.com had the cheek to suggest that the scrapping of a carrier in the 60s after a mess fire was evidence of a defective design - the damage was actually minimal but had the misfortune to occur at a time when the fleet was being hacked away.
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