Sorry to butt in, and the facts that you provide are appreciated, but you seem to propose an allocation of many multiples of what has been the case over the last 5 years or soCaribbean wrote:Despite what some of the assembled contributors here may think - a single Bay class is totally inadequate for the task of post-hurricane disaster relief in the Caribbean and the sundry tankers assigned in the past are even less capable. The entire contents of a single Bay-class will be exhausted handling the response on a single small island. Following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the RN was tasked with helping one village as that is all that it was capable of. The hurricanes of the last few years have demonstrated that the entire European response in assisting their Caribbean overseas territories has been lamentably lacking (the French pre-positioned c. 2000 troops in the French overseas departements in 2017
- if I may put a blunt question: what is the multiple that would make you happy? Cutting through the chaff, so to say