Sub hunting and airships

An interesting post at Brickmuppet;s place on anti-sub warfare.

Sadly things are even worse this side of the pond, with Nimrod MR4 still years behind schedule and over budget, and the final fleet cut to just 12 airframes! Sub hunting is too cold war to get much funding these days it seems.

Also, now the Viking is gone (and with the F-14 and A-6 retired years ago) a typical CAG is now,just F/A-18s and choppers. Seems like the USN is going down the same road as the UK too, I wonder how much longer until even the they can't afford to operate conventional fixed-wing carriers.