- Reaction score
- 10,346
- Points
- 1,260
When you show up with a fully self-sufficient task group, including command staff, you are a very valuable ally. If you can properly sustain that task group over multiple years you are an extremely valuable ally.
So that's where the fleet mix math comes from. 4 warships +1 AOR. Ideally, this means 3 AOR, and 15 warships to do that + other tasks. Then you have 6 AOPS +6-9 MCDV replacements for domestic work.
It also leaves room for a surge capability if necessary for short-term operations.
Sounds like the difference between a Class 3 Navy and the six classes below it on the Grove system.
This deployment is what the Aussie's took as their gold standard example for their entire fleet revamp, given their own deficiencies at the time. They are obviously well ahead of us right now, and I think its important to look towards some of their ideas.
Also a sign of where things have got to, I guess....