Hybrid Navy growth appears to have become an accelerated replacement plan

Is the Royal Navy's Hybrid Navy concept a budget-driven fiasco in waiting?

The apparent problem is that a Navy concept for gradual force growth has been turned into an accelerated replacement programme.

The interpretation offered is that the Royal Navy originally expected to integrate uncrewed systems as additions to its force over fifteen to twenty years. That would expand the force around existing crewed ships. The government appears to have turned that approach into a replacement programme with a timetable of roughly ten years. This interpretation helps explain the Navy's apparent lack of preparation and the hurried presentation of some concepts. The concern is that ships intended to work alongside drones could disappear as the new vessels are introduced.