It gets even worse for the Royal Navy because they have issues building their replacement:

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In a trading update on Wednesday, Babcock said: "During the outfitting stage we have experienced higher-than-expected levels of rework as a result of design changes and the long-term impacts of out-of-sequence build activity earlier in the programme.
"Whilst the number of such rework events is not entirely unexpected, the work is being performed in the later stages of completion and therefore is more complex and more costly."



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/377b1ca9a8464972
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