Thus my comment about sufficient assets.
They have good tech, good history and knowledge...but no ship building program to speak of.
Truly sad given their history.
Yep.
The Royal Navy should have 12 of each (the Darings and the Astutes). But they do not.
Just the same, if needed, I do believe that they could get one of their carriers out and sufficiently protected for strike at sea or ground support operations.
If they wanted to do both (assuming both were available) one of them would most certainly have to buddy up with a US Navy CBG.