Correction 4 years before the first ship launched.BAE Systems gave Lockheed Martin the contract to equip the Type 26's in March 2018, 4 years before the ships even launched.
Can we?We have seen no additional foreign military sales requests and no contracts to LM for more Mk41, HMS Venturer is to be launched later on this year.
I think we can all see where this is going.
There is plenty of time to acquire more Mk41 for T26 hulls 5 to 8, if some of the original order was to be re-purposed.