100%. The available weapons suite is crippling the British F35 fleet right now (and for the foreseeable future). SPEAR 3 is only a step in the right direction and really is the bare minimum in terms of range you’d want from a stand-off missile against a credible threat.Repulse wrote:What it does show IMO is that we need more SSNs and F35Bs, and more modern weapons to be be available to them and other air assets.
A large anti-ship and land-attack cruise missile is sorely needed.