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@countcol@mastodonapp.uk I don't think the RN is doing that great on force projection themselves. I wouldn't worry too much unless the Germans have a go again.
@countcol@mastodonapp.uk I don't think the RN is doing that great on force projection themselves. I wouldn't worry too much unless the Germans have a go again.
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about 20 years ago the Royal Navy had a parade of "Ships of the Line" for Tony Blair and the Queen, and they only had 4 large vessels and 10 relatively small ships, having gutted and sold at least two large warships as hulks (which were purchased, re-equipped and refloated by the navies of various SE Asian countries which were former colonies and now "British-inspired authoritarian democracies"