After a lengthy delay due to budgetary issues the eight and final Olana class destroyer has joined the Clone Navy. The powerful warships are the core surface combatants of the fleet, their main mission these days protecting the carrier fleet.
The CDF Head Admiral Anderson has said that the Clone Navy (Cloneworld Fleet) will be based around the structure of three carrier battle groups (one active, one working up and one in refit). Each battle group will be based around one of the Cloneworld class carriers and West Clone Republic class helicopter carriers.
Anderson said that it was likely now that a larger carrier to follow-on from the Cloneworld class would not be built until the 2140s at least. Instead a fourth Cloneworld and West Clone Republic will be built in the mid-2120s to form a fourth carrier battle group. He said that orders for these two carriers had been made, extra escorts would be also ordered in time. So there may be more Olanas built after all!
