“This is the Royal Navy that not so long ago endured missile attacks and air raids and hung in there in the Falklands.”
In only one generation the Royal Navy went from stud to impotent.
““This is the Royal Navy that not so long ago endured missile attacks and air raids and hung in there in the Falklands.”-
- Where the Brits lost the HMS Coventry due to inadequate air defense capability compounded by the poor decision of her Capt. to cross the bow of the HMS Broadsword which did have the capability to shoot down the incoming air attack.