To: biggerten
The Brits have one helicopter carrier, no aircraft carriers, are downsizing to 6 type 45 destroyers and 6 type 23 frigates, 7 Astute class attack subs and 4 Trident SSBN’s.
HMS Illustrious may be an LPH, but she carries 12 Harrier jump jets. As for the future of the Royal Navy, it is dire. I beleive that the Indians now have a larger navy.
65 posted on
01/06/2012 8:23:29 PM PST by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: rmlew
HMS Illustrious may be an LPH, but she carries 12 Harrier jump jets. No longer.
Just before Xmas, the Royal Navy sold all of their Harriers to the US Marine Corps.
66 posted on
01/06/2012 8:25:21 PM PST by
okie01
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