MP grills MoD over ‘expensive, obsolescent’ ships

Mark Francois has criticised the MoD over “obsolescent” naval equipment.

“So if we had to fight the Russians next week, would you want to go to war in an obsolescent warship?” he asked Vice Admiral Sir Chris Gardner KBE, the ministry of defence’s director general of ships.

Gardener rejected the claim that the ships themselves “were obsolescent”, explaining that it was the equipment on current ships that was “obsolescent”, and that the ships were still functional.