Sorry I didn’t see the other thread. Sorry for repetition.
Difficult to reply to your question, containing as it does a supposition that hasn’t been confirmed. It boils down to who you want to believe in the first place.
It’s a report by a think tank, backed with quotes from Scottish Nationalist agitators, all to do with removing UK nuclear capability from Scottish land in lieu of independence.
There is nothing here that the UK Gov will do.
The Successor (Trident delivery system) subs will be built, the question will be the number; three or four.
Quite spurious by yourself to say otherwise.
There are other questions that could be discussed here, such as the UK MPA (decision coming after the May General Election - read P8 or P1), or increasing Astute numbers at the cost of reduced T26, but I’ll leave that for another day.
Probably not for US purposes, but for UK more than enough to waltz around the Med looking pretty, scaring the Spaniards, and defending the unmentionable isles in the South Atlantic.
I was a little worried it might be an ugly duckling in the water, but from most angles it actually looks pretty spectacular. Viewed from its starboard side I thought it bore a resemblence to the Italian carrier Cavour.