The website makes you load a whole new page of ads for every photo. No thanks. Moving on.
I wouldn’t like their chances of keeping the Falkland Islands if Argentina decided to invade again, but maybe that’s more down to the Marxists that run the government rather than the declining naval capacity.
Also, part of an effective military is having a society worth fighting and dying for. How much of that is there today? Is it really what it was in the bygone century? And that’s not a knock against Britain, I feel exactly the same about the USA. How are our soldiers supposed to fight for America with comrades who are doing their makeup and making daisy chains?
They might have difficulty with an invasion by the Irish at this point....................
6 destroyers, 13 frigates, 2 helicopter carriers, and two amphibious landing ships. 7 attack subs, and 4 boomers that are not really suited for much else than nuclear war. No air besides helicopters.
THAT is the -entire- Royal Navy. 1 destroyer, 3 frigates and 1 attack sub per ocean. One helicopter carrier, and one landing ship per half the planet.
The Japanese Navy today is far more powerful and outclasses the RN. Sad.
Wonderful photographs. Thanks for sharing.
Britain’s tiny military is completely dependent on the US. While we have an anti-British regime like Obama’s, they cannot even count on that.
Good pics, but I wish websites would give you the option of looking at a pile of thumbnails instead of wading through all 33 of them one... at... a... time.
OOPS! I blew it! They actually DO have the option on this one to view it all as one page OR as thumbnails.
Sorry!
Back during the first Faulklands war, there was a Vulcan bomber in the SAC museum just south of Omaha, Nebraska. The British had a bunch of their people come here and get it back in flying condition. Then they flew it away. I suspect that it was flown back to England and used for parts for other Vulcans.
I was recently at the new SAC museum and saw that they again have a Vulcan on display. However, it is NOT the same one that was there before. It is a newer version than the one that they used to have.
If they need bombers for a new war, they will probably get them like they did the last time. From museums.