The Orchid has said that the strategic situation is deteriorating with Bolitic unstability, ABBO activity and the return of the Argon meaning the DDS is now facing potential threats on a number of fronts. The Orchid, who has already announced a big programme of ship building for the next financial year, has said that ship building rates will increase to bring the planned new ships to the fleet earlier.
More ships will also be available for operation with the time between deployments reduced from 4 to 3 weeks. A working group has also been set up to look at DDS patrol and deployment patterns to see if they can be optimised to reduce the number of ships tied up.
