Sea Control Vs. Power Projection Navy In the 1960s, the British Royal Navy planned to construct two 55,000 ton supercarriers, the CVA-01 class to replace her few remaining war-built large flattops. These very expensive warships were to have been escorted by a large new destroyer and required new aircraft to fly off their spacious decks. After the world-wide financial difficulties of the 1970s (brought on mainly by the Arab oil embargo), it is interesting to see what type of fleet would have emerged had the Labour Government not canceled the new ships. With the plans ongoing for the current fleet of supercarriers, we can’t help but wonder if the CVA-01 would have been another ‘too big to fail” project like the CVF, that would entailed a mass retirement of still-useful hulls in order to pay for. A very different fleet of ships would have sailed to the Falklands in 1982, no doubt. The primary naval threat of the Cold War was from Russian..........
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:11:56 +0000
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