Pictures: LA(Phot) Ben Sutton, FRPU North
via Royal Navy News
I don't know if I agree with their operational theory of letting destroyers command air elements but I can't deny that's a beautiful ship.
Sidenote:
Check out the first pic. That's some aggressive maneuvering!
britsh tech, with a little help from europe, at it's best.
ReplyDeleteanyways the royal navy is being gutted, quite a shambles as a sea faring/ depended country, the sea blindness of our past/present goverments, is asstonishing. With less than 20 high end warfighting ships at our disposale is shocking, We need to order more of the current type 45 & order more of the future type 26, along with more subs.
I think, we can no longer afford too be "everything too everyone", we should consentrate on one area, maritime, with a large & potent navy, able to fight on it's own, to defend our sea lanes & interests, and take the bite out of any opponent.
The raf likes to take the glory for preventing, the invasion of britain, during ww2, the real reason, the invasion never happend. The royal navy would have starved their landing troops of resupply, wargaming using hitlers, actual plans & generals during the 70's proved this fact, IF they landed, they would be annilated, not thru airwarefare, but naval blockade, army action (much weakend by dunkirk. Remeber, they too had a much more powerfull luftwaffe, with foward basing, annilation of the raf would have been possible.
infact without the royal navy, we may have been forced to surrender, or atleast comes to terms with hitler after the sound trouncing he gave us at dunkirk
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