quality of videos vs quality of comments section on this channel is astounding.

1. The RN does not rely only on RAF planes. The F-35B is jointly operated by both the RAF and the RN. 2. The UK has 33 F-35B currently in service, not 30 as shown on your graphics. 3. According to the MoD, FC/ASW is due to be operational on T26 in 2028, not in 2030. 4. T26 can handle 2 Merlin or4 Wildcats by using the RR mission bay. (T26 will almost always carry Merlin over Wildcat since Merlin has the dipping sonar)

There is a manpower drain in the RN, just as there usually is in the army and RAF. The reasons are very similar: That people want out is the inevitable result of too few ships and crews being stretched by long deployments and too high an operational tempo, with less and less time for shore jobs/family/personal and career progression. The solution is a combination of more hulls to spread the load, more people retained to man them (by improving pay and conditions) and/or the UK reducing its international commitments to a level the funding will actually support. I don't currently see any of this happening, although the concept behind the procurement of Type 31 shows that someone is thinking about more hulls with smaller crews for less money, to free up the bigger hulls with bigger crews to do the more important tasks, and maybe get deployment durations down to 6 months or less.

I just looked up the fact that the UK has 40 Admirals including vice and rear admirals and 70 commissioned ships (Apr 2023) that’s an incredible ratio! 😮 what do they all do? The bureaucracy is stunning…

It's honestly really sad to see the whole UK military decrease in size year by year. Despite this happening since WWII, They still had quite a formidable force for a country their size during the late cold war. They even demonstrated their ability to retake an outlying territory on the other side of the planet. Now their naval power appears doubtful if they were to take on one of several other world powers without the help of NATO or other allies.

The Royal Navy opted to go for power over quantity. An aircraft carrier costs around £3.7billion, while a frigate costs around £250million. If the RN didn't build the 2 aircraft carriers, it could have built around 30 frigates instead. This was the sensible option, as no navy in 2023 can call itself a serious navy without carrier strike groups. And there are only 4-5 navies in the world who can operate theirs globally (the Royal Navy being one). But the small size of the escort fleet can definitely be felt. It is on track to be larger in the early 2030s - but we need those numbers YESTERDAY. 2030s is a distant future, especially with all the problems happening in the world today.

I like it when the UK and France make stuff together. It's like the perfect mix of engineering culture.

French and British making an anti ship missile together. Oh the irony.

seeing 6 destroyer leave the British port in: 1940: sir, they are sending out a reconnaissance force 1980: sir, the 1st fleet has left port 2020: sir, the entire Royal Navy has departed.

The UK government has no real idea how to run a country, let alone maintain a military, besides this military spending is rarely popular.

British steel industy collapsed because the royal navy stopped ordering ships from the ship building industry. Ordering ships adds to the UK economy.

There’s approx 40 Admirals vs approx 17 active combat ships…hmmm..what’s wrong with this ratio 😮?

Type 26 looks like a great ship, we just need them faster, at least the Type 31 is coming along nicely and with the announcement that they will have mk41 vls it gives them a real boost in firepower.

As an island nation, a strong Navy is indispensable to Britain. Japan knows this and they are building their Navy accordingly.

Great article. You've actually got a great grasp on the numbers and funding issues face by the RN. Factual, unbiased and accurate. Highly recommended watch

The big issue is the government ordered a lot more ships (still being designed and built) and then twice now cut the number of people that can be employed to work on the vessel. Even without the new ships being built thus expanding the hull numbers... the Royal Navy has to dock other ships to take out an aircraft carrier! Even then they have to ask NATO to make up the manpower numbers on the ship and other ships for support. When working outside NATO areas they have to call on the Americans to help out.

Ruled the waves for more than a couple of centuries.

We need a good 100 billion to modernise our whole force. This will be expensive but not impossible to get

Great vid as always! Thanks Binkov 🤗

Great video. I like your take and I found this very well explained.

As a brit, i really dont know why we dont have a massive push to use our military as free higher education for the public sector. We have a distressing lack of nurses and doctors, one because the pay isnt great and two because training isnt paid and it takes minimum of 3 years... well we have military nurses and doctors that are trained in the military to the same standard as our health service, why are we not creating a corp that is somewhat dedicated to peoples future prospects after military service? 🤔 Civilian policing, fire brigade, teaching, healthcare, social care, construction and engineering all can be taught alongside military service, instead of learning at the cost of the individual in civilian life, its paid for in short service to the military that comes with an actual wage. If taxes were upped for this approach purely to bolster our military with a consistent flow of young people, i would actually vote for a tax rise.

Need to double the Frigates and Destroyers.

Love you Binkov keep up the good work:)

C. Northcote Parkinson, in his book 'Parkinson's Law', has written a very interesting chapter on the Royal Navy. It seems that after WWII, UK's Navy has faced a steady decrease of war vessels, but this decrease is accompanied with an equally steady increase in their non-combatant administrative staff. He jokes that RN may not be able to deploy many vessels in a war, but they sure can flood the enemy with memorandums and telegrams.

Money isn't the only issue, new members have been dropping every year, especially on how they do recruiting now (more focused on diversity politics). At the moment only 1 Vanguard is active while 3 are docked for repairs due to lack of specialists but there is supposed to be 2 active at all times.

Making their own designs is part of the problem. They can save money by using more joint venture projects with more standardized designs for better economies of scale. Also use more more multifunction platforms instead of specialized role platforms.

The UK has managed to have so many old, expensive systems that it's "champagne tastes, beer money". The UK should focus on having a highly skilled Marine force and ditch Imperial fantasies.

Are you really including the Admiral Kuznetsov in a carrier fleet comparison? Comic relief?

Would be realy interesting to have a video, much in the same way as this one, but going over the french's recent military programing law, looking at the state of their military and their plans to ramp up their spending for the 2030s.

Atleast we still have the song to comemorate their more than 350 years of Britania Ruling The Waves.

No. It doesn’t even have enough escorts for the carriers. It’s sad how much the politicians have damaged a once great service.

a report titled ‘We’re going to need a bigger navy’, which concluded the British fleet was not large enough to fulfil the objectives laid out in the Integrated Review. While total displacement has grown, the number of hulls - which provide the Royal Navy with the means to foster presence (the prerequisite for both sea control and denial) - has been decreasing at an alarming rate and will only increase slightly by 2040. Presently, in terms of major combatants, the Royal Navy has two large aircraft carriers, two amphibious vessels, four ballistic missile and six nuclear attack submarines, six destroyers, and 10 frigates . It plans to procure eight Type 26 and five Type 31 frigates. Other programmes - such as the Type 32 frigate and Type 83 destroyer - remain up in the air; . How the mighty have fallen

The Royal navel deprived of financial resources is heading to a fleet size sustainable by a very small island. It survives right now on the financial industry in London but with the US dollar in decline and alternative currency for world trade coming into operation this will reduce significantly.

F35 is set up as a joint force between RN and RAF. Squadrons are assigned to carriers or land as required, so there is no specific allocation of airframes to either RN or RAF separately.

Trying to have every capability means the defense budget gets spread too thin.

British Army 40 years ago. It was already clear then that the Navy wasn't getting the investment it needed. It would have been even worse if Argentina hadn't invaded the Falklands.

make a video abaut the modernization process of the Greek armed forces, the possible problems and its strategic goals💪

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Bit of an essay, so: Generally good and agree, but the Royal Navy's strategy is not Indo-Pacific-centric. Navy leadership (Radakin, Key) have been clear in saying that the North Atlantic is the RN's centre of gravity. The carriers will visit the Pacific every couple of years as opposed to frequent sightings around Europe. The patrol ships we've sent to the Pacific and Indian Ocean are there to keep a modest presence, as a point of contact and engagement when the carrier group isn't visiting, that way there's a consistent engagement with allies instead of us randomly showing up every so often. The Type 32s are an interesting one to pin down, as they began to be mentioned within a year of the Stena Impero tanker crisis, where only one RN ship was available to cover the whole Stait of Hormuz. This is speculation, one wonders if the embarrassment of that gave the RN enough of a case to argue for more escort ships. Boris Johnson being the Churchill-fan would have probably understood the historical parallels. Good points about dollar-pound exchange rates, which will continue to be an issue. Fortunately, one of the very few things that has gotten better in the last 5 years is investment in shipyards in the UK, as well as the UK having a good complex weapons infrastructure (MBDA) to arm what we build. Now there's more to a warship than just that (sonars... 'we need more sonars' could be on our national tombstone if we're not careful), but the long term investments in infrastructure will at least offset that part of the cost (one desperately hopes). Amphibious shipping's current state breaks my heart: in the 2000s we probably had the most capable landing force outside the USA, with supporting logistics. Even when we gutted the carriers back then it was still capable. Now we're going in the other direction. I know the Royal Marines are focusing more on raiding rather than mass-landings, but it's a bloody hard capability to rebuild. The Multi-Role Support Ships would probably keep it alive if imperfect. Here in the UK we'd all love a 2-3 LHDs like the Trieste or Juan Carlos but the personnel costs would make that a battle. Even with a growing number of loud voices at Parliament wanting a larger armed forces, the Treasury can be a bit fickle at times with defence.

Inflation on military equipment usually is higher than inflation on consumer goods. That means that the Royal Navy is even farther behind. It could be worse, they could be the Royal Canadian Navy.

6 out of 10 top ship builders are Korean and Japanese. Shame they dont have a Nato interoperability yet.

Nice summary. It was well thought out and well organised. In fact, I think this was one of your best videos in recent months!

Thank you 🙏 AGAIN Comrade Binkov, top shelf as always 🏆👏👏🍺 BTW who's the Blonde we'd like an introduction 😉

You forgot to mention that the UK have lost their advanced alert and surveillance capabilities, after retiring their E-3D AWACS in 2021, which the E-7 Wedgetail should have replace, 5 in total, but which will end up being 3 (even though the MoD has paid for 5 MESA radars... ), and not before 2024/2025.

Make a video like this on Indian Navy too.. ❤❤

Binkov, I love your videos. The pronunciation for AUKUS = OR CUSS

you sure open our eyes sir, thank you for your continuous efforts!!!

to be fair, any large conventional war the UK might find itself in would be a team affair. the Royal Navy only really needs to be able to field one good battle group and help with support actions. it's not trying to secure a giant empire anymore

Definitely can't pull off the 3rd opium war anymore

Awesome.

Technology-wise the Royal Navy has so much potential to expand but the lack of monies and political will hold us back. Perhaps a Royal CANZUK navy could fill in the gaps which would give Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom more clout across the seas with frigates and carriers that span the entire globe, without going broke financially. #canzuk

As much as I hate to say it, but one of the main problems I see with UK procurement (also applies to US as well) is they do not leverage cooperative spending on new platforms and prefer to go solo in many cases which is huge financial burden to have. If they could cost split between either 2 or several nations on a specific platform, it would like do much in the term of cost savings in both R&D and manufacturing. I suppose the AUKUS sub design is a step in the right direction however, it is not exactly a F-35 of seas like I'm thinking of and granted every nation is going to have its own tweaks are specifications that are going to need to be met, but I think at the very least a common hull design can be achieved and I can see a benefit in terms of interoperability with said approach as well.

It would be interesting to compare this with the Japanese Navy and military in general. They have significantly more warships, more personnel, aircraft etc yet have a smaller defence budget than the UK. Why are they able to get so much more for their money?

Good One

I have no doubt that today's Royal Navy displays the confidence and professionalism that it always has. However the fact is that the fleet is now a hollowed out force and would not be able to sustain the kind of losses it did during the Falklands campaign. There are far too few destroyers frigates and attack submarines to build a task force around the new carriers. Promises of new ships are seldom kept by a government with no commitment to security and defence. As an example it is now 20 years since a new frigate was commissioned.

That’s what happens when the government keeps slashing away the size of the navy and neglecting what’s left. Moreover the army’s now what’s being prioritised despite being an island nation, where it’s actually more crucial to focus more on the navy, Fleet air arm and airforce.

Awesome vid - Cheers for sharing !!! :)

Budget x year it has to be readed in the other way around. When a budget for a certain branch is low it mean that the branch is up to date at the state of the art, and it need only the budget for maintenance and other expenses. On contrary when the budget for that particular year will considerably be raised, it mean that the branch is under the way of being modernized in some way (new, up tondate, tech buying/building or tech replacement). This reading of the budget however is valid when the Government do not do cuts to budgets for economic reasons, but the up and down curve of the budget is solely dependant of the speech did above.

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Royal navy's size and capability needs to commensurate with UK's economy size. At some point, voters have to choose between aircraft carriers and NHS.

Please do similar videos on other countries, e.g. Poland, US, France Sweden, India, Japan, Germany, Brazil, etc.

Would be very interesting to see one of these on future plans on Russian naval expansion

Possible mods to existing and projected vessels Type 45- 16 Sylver A70 instead of 24 'mushroom farms' , 2x3 324 torp tubes, 2 phalanx swappd out for 2 millenium guns, martlet module (also fitted for starstreak) on the 2 ds30 mounts Type 23- Not applicable due to imminent decomissioning, nsms on as many vessels as possible Type 26- Oto 127/64 for Mk 45 127mm gun, self defence weapons as envisaged on type 45, use of exls for 48 camm-er , 32 instead of 24 mk41, envisaged missiles FC/ASW, Rn should put out a competiton for missile launched torpedo- Candidates- Milas, VL-Asroc, SMART, Type-07, K-Asroc. 16- 24 FC/ASW for anti shipping and land strike, 8-16 asw missiles Type 32 (AAW Arrowhead 140/Iver Huitfeldt - 32 cell Mk 41 or Sylver for Aster 30, 6X4 Exls for 24 camm er, 16 cannister launched missiles, initially NSM, later cannister launched fc/asw, hull and bow mounted sonar, full aaw radar suite (apar, smart-l), raft mounted machinery and 2x3 324 top tubes, 1x57 with madfires or 1x76 with strales, 2x35 millenium gun likely the second batch (type 32). Type 31- (Gp arrowhead 140/ Iver Huitfeldt)32 Mk 41 reserved for 32 FC/ASW, for but not with asroc, no raft mounted machinery (to be specified when layed down, now not possible), NS 110 only(Topweight problems otherwise), 2x3 torp tubes, 57 with madfires or swapped out for 76mm with strales if not available, 2x35 millenium guns instead of 2X 40mm l70, the best sonars that can still be fitted, ffbnw another 24 sea ceptors in the space where the iver huitfeldt has harpoon cannisters (stanflex allows 48 essm instead of 24 essm and 16 harpoons, sea ceptor is smaller than essm, just needs exls instead of mushroom farms to make enough space availabke QE Class- 7 millenium guns for 4 ds30 and 3 phalanx, 32x4 sea ceptor in exls, cats and traps for AEW , aim for 138 f35b RN and RAF F35A order of between 35-65 Albion Class- 4 millenium guns, 8x4 sea ceptor in exls (can be guided by type 997) River Class batch 2 only- 57 or 76mm main gun, 2x(starboard and port) ds30 martlet/starstreak mount, 12-16 sea ceptors, 4-8 nsms/ cannister launched fc/asw, type 997 'artisan radar', sonars if possible, 2x3 324 torps RFE- All 7 Replenishment ships, 3 LSD and argus- 4 Millenium guns each, Sea ceptor definitely on fort victoria (fitted ffbnw sea wolf 1994), explore on other vessels Subs- Little can be done with current vessels, ensure all future subs (Aukus) launch tomahawk/ hopefully sub launched fc/asw out of vls tubes rather than torpedo tubes, continue to modernise lethality and survivability of nuclear delivery systems but mantain 'miniumum credible deterrent' levels in terms of warheads, develop a replacement for spearfish Future Type 83- 112 'full cells', preferably a mk 41 successor or sylver 'a90' for sm-6 or aster 30 future blocks, fc/asw, an asroc, 32 x4 exls for CAMM-Mr in development currently, aranged port and starboard on the superstructure due to minimal deck penertration, s 2x3 324 torps, full sonar suite, extremely large hangar space, 1x 127mm/64 oto centreline fore, 2X 76MM strales/57MM madfires facing fore in a horrizon clas layout, 1 or 2 aft 4 millenium gun amidships, probably 2 on port and 2 starboard side, competitive aaw radar suite Minimum tonnag 13,000 tons, suggested 16,000 tons, maximum around 18,000 tons Reasoning- Type 32 AAW/ Asw -Frigates- The type 45 is not going to be replaced for a considerable ammount of time, its 6 hulls need to be supplemented in this time frame by the frigates, the type 31 and projected type 32 if using an arrowhead 140 hull originats from a capable and affordable aaw frigate hull which has had success in tracking ballistic missiles in Danish tests and this can be leveraged into an affordable aaw interim solution, adding camm er to type 26 also enchances the self defence of carrier strike groups further and the current 'mushroom farm launcher can accomadate this. Adding torpedos and sonars as the 140 design allows for is also useful in 'second rate asw roles, reducing dependance on type 26 Land attack/ Anti shipping type 31 The type 26 will be needed for predominantly anti submarine warfare despite currently being projected to have a land attack role and is an expensive, specialised ship to do this, a good use of the type 31 hulls that have already been layed down, and cannot be wholly reconverted into aaw frigates is to use the large 32 cell mk 41 launcher for packing a lethal ammount of fc/asw both for anti shipping and land strike. The space the iver huitfeldt uses for its 24 essms and 16 harpoon launchers is freed up, there will be no need for cannister launchers and this can therefore have as many 'self defence' sea ceptors as needed, according to the danes, they can have 48 essms in their 'stanflex module, sea ceptor is a smaller missile but 'mushroom farm' launchers take up more space per missile than the mk 56 dual pack for essm. The exls is a great solution, being used on the canadian variant of the type 26 (6 cells, 24 sea ceptors), and accomadates soft launch strength of sea ceptor Millenium Gun- With pre programmable ammunition for use against supersonic mssiles, a variable fire rate up to 1,000 rpm (more than 3x that of the basic 40mm l70 bofors mount proposed) and designed from the ground up to be just as deadly against surface targets, the millenium gun should never have been removed during the redesign of the iver huitfeldt to create the type 31. Phalanx is getting long in the tooth, doesnt have the same range against surface targets and is heavier than a millenium gun mount. If a 40mm l70 bofors deriavative is used, i would want a breda version, either the single or double barelled 'fast forty', 450 and 900 rpm respectfully, rather than 240-330 on the mk 4 BAE/ Bofors Question mark over the 57/70 The 57mm l70 mk 3 gun definitely has some significant advantages over the 76mm oto, in muzzle velocity, rpm and better 'explosive per second fired' than the 76mm/62. However though it has some sophisticated airburst ammuniton, it lacks a guided dart like the 76mm which has turned it into a true ciws or a long range land attack projectile (the miniturized Vulcano round for the 76mm gun is effective to 40km). If the 57mm was to receive a guided dart such as 'Madfires' then this debate becomes a bit more even. The type 31 should rightly get closer to enemy shores than the valuable and expensive type 26 and their is an argument to be made that it should have a 'big gun' and the type 26 a more ubiquitous one rather than the other way around. The 76mm gun provides both solutions, i wouldnt want to close in to the range of a 57mm gun for shore bombardment Insisting on an Asroc- Its a nobrainer for any serious ASW focussed ship. The type 23 has been a stalwart and is still seriously cutting edge in its sonars and acoustic quietness, but to rely on its helicopters and especially its deck torpedo mounts would be a death trap in a scenario like the south china sea with dozens of chinese submarines, if you are having to use your deck torpedoes, you are yourself in danger. Having a dozen or more asrocs means less chance of running out of weaponry, and a standoff weapon Why no tomahawk, LRASM- The fundemental mission of the FC/ASW was to get a missile than can do both roles, be incredibly surivivable through speed, stealth or both, to free up deck space from cannister launchers without having to use more vls cells than would have already been used for tomahawk. It remains by all reports to be on track for service and integration into strike length mk 41 and a70 sylver cells by the end of the decade. Having a kirov like ammount of deadly missiles on a frigate also sounds seriously cool right. Even if the aircraft carrier is still king Mk 45- The mk 45 is nearly 50 years old and the only reason its going to be on a 2030s british vessel is because BAE is responsible for it it and wants uniformity across western and nato allies. The Oto Melera 127/64 has a higher rate of fire, muzzle velocity, range both with and without extended range ammunition (120 km with vulcano), higher elevation, rotation speed and general aa performance Somebody try and cost this all for me. Aiming for 8+ Type 83. I think the UK can do this within 15 years or so on between 2.5 and 3% of GDP (us spends 3.5%). Wish more could be done for the other services but RN is most likely to be in a shooting war which involves a majority of its assets rather than the army or RAF

It’s important that an island state has suffice forces to protect its imports..such as oil and good which happen to pass through regions of conflicts (Iran). Just recall how Germany almost starved the UK during the war and more recently, oil tanker captured by Iran gunboats..

I have to watch videos on Russia and China's aircraft carriers to cheer myself up after this

10:00 for comparison of aircraft carrier displacement a Nimitz class carrier displaces around 100,000 times. Hence the name supercarrier.

Honestly, they should reduce their fleet and make it into something like this: 6-8 Destroyers 8000+ Tons 6-8 Frigates 5000+ Tons 8-12 Multi Mission OPVs / Corvettes 2000+ Tons 10-12 SSK Submarines 4-6 SSBN Submarines 2 Carriers

Personally I think the UK should have a token amount of land forces ( 10,000) keep the tanks and armous but use the saved funds and pump it into the navy and airforce,

The problem is not just the UK's economic woes (largely driven by the Bank of England's abject failure to control inflation), but a lack of appetite among sitting MPs to increase defence spending when they have other public spending priorities (health, welfare, education etc.). An unfortunate attitude has taken hold that in effect, spending more on defence will cost them votes. To compound this, during the past decade or so there have been bone headed decisions made, notably flip flopping over catapults for the CVs, before eventually opting for STOVL 🤦‍♂

The f35s are a joint operated force with raf and rn squadrons with mixed personnel

the best is the last sentence 🕊

the carriers are larger enough to operate 60 fighters the reason why this number has gone down to only 36 is purely financial

Why is literally every western navy in dire straits right now, pun not intended

Short answer NO! But I also know that depends on a lot of things.

He said "But only peace can bring us together" again! I've missed it a little.

The Brits obviously don't expect to be in any kind of major war anytime soon 🙄

Should return to using oars and rowing, it's free and all the sailors will be super jacked

Very good video! What software do you use to make maps?

Britain is the Worlds 6th largest economy so I would imagine any spending cuts are temporary due to high energy prices. But Britain being part of NATO is not expected to fight alone. The Royal Navy usually operates with US super carrier battle groups. Having said that the Royal Navy has some of the most advanced ships and subs on the plannet. It is certainly capable of holding its own against the antiquated Russian navy for example. The fact is Russia is now considered a paper tiger and no threat to European security. The Royal Nave is being expanded with several new ship classes being introduced, but these will help counter the Chinese, the only serious threat NATO has.

I guess it´s fair to say that none of the big three in Europe - UK, France, Germany - is able to have a strong military and a good social system at the same time, that would include good healthcare system, social net and educational system. In these days all military systems like fighter planes, tanks, ships etc. became so expensive that none of these 3 can afford them in numbers we all were used to. That means we have to cooperate and combine our forces and don´t think in terms of national pride anymore. In the future we gotta think of European joint squadrons - apart from those in the NATO. This can be a successful concept, look at the cooperation of the Dutch and German army. And guys - please remember: there´s no empire anymore ................................... just saying.

The best ship of the RN is the HMS Nostalgia 😂

POW is back in service.

53 Billion pounds can buy a lot of superglue for patching up broken bits and pieces.

One of the reasons I don’t like watching our modern Royal Navy is because of how sad it is. I mostly watch and read about our fleet in the late 18th - mid 20th centuries where we were at our absolute height.

Could you do the same on French navy pls ? I feel like the upcoming plans are really not up to the task. They always mention the FDI but it will be quite small ship, and we will only have a few ...

Please, if my country can only do one thing right, let it be sending out Navy abroad to help people.

It’s time for the British to accept their role as a middle power. They simply don’t have the resources or political will to intervene in far off places when domestic issues are so dire

How can anyone watch this and still think the UK is going to build a 6th gen fighter?

Binkov, I’d like to see a hypothetical history if imperial Japan didn’t attack Pearl Harbor but choosing to invade the Soviet Union instead in 1941

I can see where they lost room for those missiles on the Dreadnought

Your'e information on precument of the F35b is incorrect it's as follows ; As of May 2023 the UK has taken delivery of 38 F35b split between the squadrons of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, with a total of 48 to be delivered under the directive of Tranche 1. A further 27 under the directive of tranche 2 will take the F35 b to 74 split between the two services. Now hopefully by 2030/2035 the new aircraft Tempest will be available and a carrier version will be available as well, and also the two carriers are to be modified under the directive Ark Royal Profect.

Royal Navy still exists thats surprising

Lol at 10:00 Russia "up to one" carrier.

Various government has stripped the armed forces to the point where it is not big enough to defend us 😢

"Sick man of Europe" is a label given to a nation located in Europe experiencing economic difficulties, social unrest or impoverishment.Throughout the 1960s to the 1980s, the term was also most notably used for the United Kingdom when it lost its superpower status as the Empire crumbled and its home islands experienced significant deindustrialization, coupled with high inflation and industrial unrest - such as the Winter of Discontent - including having to seek loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since the mid-2010s and into the 2020s, the term being used for Britain with cost-of-living crisis and industrial disputes in 2023.

I don't know how a lot of us European militaries are struggling so much? Surely given the peace dividend from the ending of the cold war removed a lot of funding pressure? Or is it the usual case of, now you need less funding, we're going to take more away each year and forget about asking for a reasonable boost to face a very real threat" it's like that for every council in the UK when for years they had to fund a tonne of other stuff, budgets were cut and now they can't find even basic stuff. Id love to know where this cost cutting money goes? Cos the government keeps saying austerity is necessary but can gind a magic money tree for religious fundamentalists as long as they vote with the government on Brexit! The Tories, and most politicians, don't live in a world many of us would recognise, unless the houses of parliament have weekly barbeques with sterling as the only fuel i really dont understand how vast amounts of gdp disappears over the years?!?!

Hace tiempo que no haces simulaciones de guerras entre países, podrías hasta actualizar con los que hicisteis.

Everything is fine

Deindustrialization killed the British

Rule Britannia from Glasgow 😎 🇬🇧