overlander
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after the recent cuts of the british ministry of defence (alias ministry of cuts), the french navy has clearly replaced royal navy as the most powerful navy in western europe, here some examples.
ROYAL NAVY- paid off in reserve of carrier hms invincible, withdrawal of the sea harriers, reductions in escrots numbers from 35 in 1996 to 25 in 2006, only one carrier hms illustrious in active service, delays in construction of astute class submarines, reductions from planned 12 type 45 new destroyers to only 6, delays and uncertain future of construction of new cvf carriers from planned in service date of 2012- 2015 to now 2016 as a minimum and maybe only one will be now built, hms queen elizabeth, delays in the project studies of replacements for type 22 and 23, etc
FRENCH NAVY- NEW POWERFUL MISTRAL CLASS LHD,S MISTRAL AND TONNERRE BEING ACCEPTED IN ONE YEAR, ORDERS OF AT LEAST NEW 17 NEW ESCORTS, strong commitments to build the second carrier, orders of more rafale fighters for the charles de gaulle carrier, future orders of new auxiliary ships, etc.
with all these comparisons it,s obvious that the royal navy is no longer the most polerful navy in europe but the problem is that if britis mod follows this way in another 10 years the british navy will be in the same scale of power as the italian and spanish navies, certainly if things not chenge drastically in 10 yeras it will be a second division navy
ROYAL NAVY- paid off in reserve of carrier hms invincible, withdrawal of the sea harriers, reductions in escrots numbers from 35 in 1996 to 25 in 2006, only one carrier hms illustrious in active service, delays in construction of astute class submarines, reductions from planned 12 type 45 new destroyers to only 6, delays and uncertain future of construction of new cvf carriers from planned in service date of 2012- 2015 to now 2016 as a minimum and maybe only one will be now built, hms queen elizabeth, delays in the project studies of replacements for type 22 and 23, etc
FRENCH NAVY- NEW POWERFUL MISTRAL CLASS LHD,S MISTRAL AND TONNERRE BEING ACCEPTED IN ONE YEAR, ORDERS OF AT LEAST NEW 17 NEW ESCORTS, strong commitments to build the second carrier, orders of more rafale fighters for the charles de gaulle carrier, future orders of new auxiliary ships, etc.
with all these comparisons it,s obvious that the royal navy is no longer the most polerful navy in europe but the problem is that if britis mod follows this way in another 10 years the british navy will be in the same scale of power as the italian and spanish navies, certainly if things not chenge drastically in 10 yeras it will be a second division navy