Royal Navy cut to smallest size ever - 25 ships !
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Fittster said:
How big a navy do you want? 25, 50, 100, 500?
Big enough to do its job, with just 25 ships it is difficult to see how it will protect Britain's sea-lanes or project power overseas. If anyone wishes to do anything against British interests - Falklands? Sierra Leone? - we will be virtually powerless to stop them.Ayahuasca said:
Fittster said:
How big a navy do you want? 25, 50, 100, 500?
Big enough to do its job, with just 25 ships it is difficult to see how it will protect Britain's sea-lanes or project power overseas. If anyone wishes to do anything against British interests - Falklands? Sierra Leone? - we will be virtually powerless to stop them.The Telegraph has published dozens of stories about what the Forces will and won't get. Very few, if any, have been accurate. Best to wait until the SDSR is published rather than getting worked up about stories dreamed up by journalists.
This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
ninja-lewis said:
The Telegraph has published dozens of stories about what the Forces will and won't get. Very few, if any, have been accurate. Best to wait until the SDSR is published rather than getting worked up about stories dreamed up by journalists.
This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
We'll have not of your calm logic around here, thank you very much. This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
HALF THE SIZE OF THE GREEK NAVY FFS!
ninja-lewis said:
The Telegraph has published dozens of stories about what the Forces will and won't get. Very few, if any, have been accurate. Best to wait until the SDSR is published rather than getting worked up about stories dreamed up by journalists.
This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
We will only get one carrier though. That is pretty much guaranteed now.This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
FourWheelDrift said:
Ayahuasca said:
To put it into context, the GREEK navy will be approximately twice as large as the Royal Navy.
But most are just tiny coastal ships designed to keep the Turks at bay.What difference does it make that the enemy has four times as many ships if you'll sink all of them before they come into range?
The MOD budget is bloated and the nature of warfare has changed. It's sad but it strikes me as a perfect place to make "cuts".
rhinochopig said:
ninja-lewis said:
The Telegraph has published dozens of stories about what the Forces will and won't get. Very few, if any, have been accurate. Best to wait until the SDSR is published rather than getting worked up about stories dreamed up by journalists.
This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
We will only get one carrier though. That is pretty much guaranteed now.This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
Ayahuasca said:
rhinochopig said:
ninja-lewis said:
The Telegraph has published dozens of stories about what the Forces will and won't get. Very few, if any, have been accurate. Best to wait until the SDSR is published rather than getting worked up about stories dreamed up by journalists.
This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
We will only get one carrier though. That is pretty much guaranteed now.This story could be the Navy trying to show how much they're suffering or the Army trying to show how stupid they're being over the carriers. Who knows.
Two fighters and a low level attack plane.
F i F said:
With only 25 ships, would it even be possible to protect our own fishing grounds?
Yes I know technically we don't have any of our own fishing grounds any more bla bla bla
We still have a few old aircraft that can just about manage to fly out over our fishing grounds. Rumours of the Hendon Wellington being taken up to Cosford to be repainted in Coastal Command colours for this job are not true, not very anyway.Yes I know technically we don't have any of our own fishing grounds any more bla bla bla
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