Royal Navy to lose missiles and be left only with guns

UK Telegraph ^ | November 15, 2016 | Ben Farmer

[C19fan]

Royal Navy warships will be left without anti-ship missiles and be forced to rely on naval guns because of cost-cutting, the Ministry of Defence has admitted.

The Navy’s Harpoon missiles will retire from the fleet’s frigates and destroyers in 2018 without a replacement, while there will also be a two year gap without helicopter-launched anti-shipping missiles.

[C19fan]

If the Senior Service is going all guns at least bring back the Dreadnaught.

[the_individual2014]

You have got to be $hitting me.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Royal Navy warships will be left without anti-ship missiles and be forced to rely on naval guns because of cost-cutting

There you go, cut back on defense because you're too busy spending on social welfare for Muslim immigrants who hate everything about your country.

I can picture students in the 24th century shaking their heads in disbelief as they read about the self-destructive impulses of Western democracies in the 21st century.

[Smedley]

A Royal fleet of targets. Let’s hope the Brits don’t need to actually fight anyone

[Spruce]

"Doh!"

[Moltke]

Worked for them at Trafalgar...oh, wait...we’re in the 21st century now?

[Steely Tom]

Obviously, bringing in millions of second- and third-worlders to boost the tax base was a brilliant plan.

[DarthVader]

You might as well not have a navy.

[WKUHilltopper]

So now they’re just basically self-propelled target tows?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I guess we can expect more of this.

The Hood found the Bismarck and on that fatal day
The Bismarck started firin’ fifteen miles away
“We gotta sink the Bismarck” was the battle sound
But when the smoke had cleared away, the mighty Hood went down.

[AppyPappy]

But there will be plenty of Welfare for deadbeats.

[NorthMountain]

They have gone stark raving mad.

[Greystoke]

Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves...oh wait, never mind.

[colorado tanker]

Might as well just give the tars rocks to throw.

[epluribus_2]

BS. Even if were true they are not dumb enough to announce that. C’mon.

[Covenantor]

Read the article...

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

Suicide.

[BuffaloJack]

This is just as bad as the recent completion of 3 Zumwalt class destroyers in the USN. Obama cut their budget and the ships are completed, but there’s no funds for any ammo.

[dfwgator]

But they’ll still have the rum, sodomy and the lash.

[DCBryan1]

Wow Nimrods, Tornados, and Buccaneers used to be 30% of their ASW force. Now their ships are losing the missiles. Incredible.