I was browsing through Lewis Pages thoughts on the CVF purchase.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/rn_carrier_deal_inked/
Particularly this:
"But carriers are also good for big wars, too. Suppose it's really not your day, and the bad guys have some working submarines at sea. An honest
anti-submarine commander, offered constant airborne radar and a squadron or two of subhunting helicopters, will always prefer this option to a fistful of
frigates. The radar alone will keep the subs submerged whenever they get within a few hundred miles, and in the case of non-nuclear subs this slows them to a
crawl - more or less pinning them, while the much faster moving surface fleet moves off out of range."
Is he right or well wide of the mark? To give context, if you were in an area where subs are at play would you prefer to command 1 Vini, with 6-8 Merlin, SHar
and ASAC or 6 Type 23 with 1 Merlin each?
