![]() ![]() And even more worrying is we only have 19 destroyers and frigates. “Tens of millions, because you’ll have to cut a hole in the ship, get into it, fit something else into it, button it up and get it out. West said the repairs were likely to cost huge sums. You don’t expect suddenly to lose all power when you’re steaming along normally.” It’s an intermittent fault which has quite clearly caused a lot of problems. “There’s no doubt this is extremely worrying. “They must have known three or four years ago that this was more than that,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. ![]() ![]() The former Labour security minister Admiral Lord West called the flaw “a real weakness” and said the MoD had pretended it was a case of teething problems. Two years ago, HMS Dauntless had to stop a training exercise because of power failure, and in 2009, on its first voyage to the US, HMS Daring lost power in the Atlantic. The BBC reported that a senior serving naval officer had written in an email that “total electric failures are common” on the ships. ![]()
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