I would expect their task force to consist of both carriers, all the amphibious vessels (which could carry 2200 Royal Marines), four Type 23 FFGs, two Type 22 FFGs, four Type 42 DDGs and at least two, if not four of their SSNs.
That's a potent force...but as I said, would need to be augmented by a US Nimitz carrier for fleet air to ward off the SU-30s.
Now, there are already two Daring Class very effective PAAMS area air defense DDGs floated, one of which is in sea trials. Either of those would also make a very effective addition to this task force, on the order of the capability of a Burke DDG,
You think Britain would fight for the Falklands today ?
As the article explains, they are mothballing a main fleet carrier. The expected future cuts will mothball an amphib ship as well. They plan to cancel 2 of the air defense destroyers previously planned. They are cutting the surface escorts by half a dozen additional ships. Nor is the readiness level they are starting from high - this instant, only 18 British surface ships are at ready status, with all the others still supposedly on strength, actually on 48 hours standby.
The British navy has already been gutted and it is about to be gutted by a factor of two, again. The likelihood that the pantywaists deliberately doing so, supposedly to save a quarter of 1 billion pounds per year out of a national government expenditure of 292 billion pounds, is lower than the chance Ahmadinejad will announce tomorrow that he has found Jesus.
Britain is a has-been country circling the drain. Facts may not be pleasant, but it is enough of a warning for us that we can't afford to sugarcoat it.