David Axe, National Interest: The Royal Navy’s New Aircraft Carriers Are Eating the Fleet
The Royal Navy in late 2019 announced the composition of its first-ever aircraft carrier battle group. And it’s both good and bad news for the storied fleet.
Good news because the Royal Navy just barely should be able to generate all the ships and planes it need to deploy an entirely British battle group.
Bad news because frequent deployments with the same mix of ships clearly is unsustainable as the Royal Navy shrinks, the inevitable result of decades of declining budgets.
HMS Queen Elizabeth, the lead vessel in a two-ship class of conventionally-fueled carriers, is slated to deploy for the first time in 2021. Fleet officials told reporters the flattop will sail with two Type 45 destroyers including HMS Dragon, two Type 23 frigates including HMS Northumberland, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, the tanker RFA Tideforce and fleet stores ship RFA Fort Victoria.
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WNU Editor: Its hard to maintain a world class navy when you are unwilling to allocate the resources to make it happen.
8 comments:
When my uncle joined the RN it had a Pacific fleet & fleets in all the oceans. Now its a one shot navy. It can only do one task at a time.
Hahahaha its the most advanced battlefleet in the world!
When a country prefer to give handout to migrant from middle east and africa, it usually remain without money for the military !
The soul of Britannia left a long time ago. Remnants can be found in US, Canada, NZ, Australia and S. Africa.
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