Hi,
The money comes from to fast dwindling pot of gold at the end of the rainbow….no really it is a combined budget with the various arms of the forces bidding for money to pay for upkeep, new equipment etc. They usually are allocated a certain amount of dosh to do everything for the financial year and how the individual arms divi it up again depends on the requiremet at the time. The need for say an RFA comes from a decsion based on the requiremt of the forces. It is usually based on future rather than current tasking. For instance the Type 23 was designed for blue water asw ops so the requirement for the RFA was to design and build a ship that would support the 23 for up to xxx days, including ammunition, food, general stores and a facility to support the Merlin helicopter……as so the AOR was born (Fort Victoria / George). Today the requirement has change and we have moved from blue water ops to littoral, and provide a greater support to our troops ashore (amphibious role) and so to optimise the reqirement we need to build ships that can operate in hot/cold regions, accomodate, deploy, support and sustain, provide other roles such as mass evacuation etc, and so LSD(A) was born, and so on.
Hope this helps in some way
Regards.
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