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1/5 Odin’s Eye take: The Royal Navy’s Decline and What Must be Done?
The Royal Navy has become a political football. The Labour govt claims to be boosting defence spending already (and in reality doing a poor job of preserving what’s left of the active Fleet, which is…very
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4/5 Plus there needs to be massive, and urgent, investment in the unwisely neglected Royal Fleet Auxiliary support flotilla. Then there’s the pressing need for new expeditionary sea base ships for the Royal Marines (the current ones either being laid up, in maintenance, diverted
5/5 If other nations have firm, well articulated plans for properly balanced navies, why on earth can’t the UK manage it? Australia has an active, ambitious plan for its maritime defence investment, while Canada is planning up to 20 multi-role corvettes and is currently going to
Here's the @RoyalNavy River Class (Batch 2) Offshore Patrol Vessel @HMSTrent inbound to @HMNBDevonport early this morning. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
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A word or two on Type 26 frigates from our Editor @IBallantyn 👇
Once the UK Govt drank the elixir of drones - a way to do without those expensive Type 26 warships, their seemingly too-hard-to-recruit people and costly weapons - and the Ukrainians 'beat a navy without a navy', it seized upon the 'hybrid navy' as the latest 'silver bullet' to
Sending the currently unemployed Ukrainian mine-hunters working out of Portsmouth in the UK - because they cannot get through the Turkish Straits to operate in the Black Sea - to help tackle the Strait of Hormuz mine menace (at some stage) is a sensible move, if today's reports
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