While the Government says no decision has yet been taken about whether HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark are to be mothballed, Forces News takes a look at what this could mean – and why if this does happen there would probably be a considerable reduction in capability.
HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark are the Royal Navy's Landing Platform Docks, designed to deliver the punch of the mighty Royal Marines to land by sea or by air.
Mothballing the Albion-class vessels would certainly raise some eyebrows in terms of what this would mean for the Royal Marines - and would likely place the Littoral Response Group (LRG) deployments that the Navy has been championing for the past three years in jeopardy.
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