03-14-2007, 19:25 PM
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Originally Posted by gunnut
A proper carrier with catapults and at least 60,000t is probably out of the question.
A sea control ship in the 20,000t to 30,000t range should be doable.
But the problem is the escorts. You need escorts for a major vessel like that. Those don't run cheap.
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Its not going to happen.
- we have crewing level problems as it is
- we are not resourced for maintaining split fleets based on an ESG in addition to existing fleet structure
- pulling existing assets to act as ESG cohorts would imbalance the fleet (ie. we would then have to buy extra assets to counterbalance the leak from fleets east and fleets west
- running costs for ESG's are not trivial. quite a few countries have suddenly realised that fact. pulling running costs to run 2 x ESG's (and nominally a 3rd as a spare so as to provide 66% availability) would mess up the rest of the ADF budgets
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