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Lord Jim
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So are you saying these four new ASW Frigates will be part of a network including high end Air Defence platforms like the four Dutch LCF and will become additional magazines for these vessels? Maybe we could do the same with our planned T-32, teaming them with the T-45 and T-26, even maybe the Carriers. IT should be a no brainer for the Royal Navy to have its Carrier Task Forces networked but it requires the powers that be to actually have at least one brainer between them.

I still think we should buy six to eight of these new Dutch/Belgian MCVs for operations in home waters or like we are doing in the Gulf at the moment. Build the "Tool Boxes" in the UK and make them compatible with the Mission Bay on the T-26 and planned Multi mission Ships for example. This would give us both a expeditionary mine warfare capability and a mine defence capability for naval yards and key maritime choke points.

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Lord Jim wrote:So are you saying these four new ASW Frigates will be part of a network including high end Air Defence platforms like the four Dutch LCF and will become additional magazines for these vessels?
Just guessing - let's not forget the Danish frigates
- radar upgrades already being done
- the monies for missiles of the ABM kind already segregated in the next 5-year 'EP' plan of theirs

The other thing to bear in mind is that while all those assets would network nicely with the US ones in Poland, the 4 USN ABM-capable ABs based in Rota are really for the Med, to provide 'patches' for land-based bubbles, stretching from Romania to the Gulf
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https://www.egmontinstitute.be/for-better-or-for-worse/

For Better or For Worse

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It took Belgium two world wars to understand that its international and territorial security could only be guaranteed through alliances and unions with like-minded nations. Since the end of the Second World War, multilateralism has been ingrained in the DNA of Belgian foreign policy.

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