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    Il Regno Unito “esaurisce” le navi da guerra, lasciando alla Germania il compito di assumere il controllo della missione chiave della NATO

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    1. ABoutDeSouffle on

      >Britain will not be able to meet its Nato commitments next month because it does not have any available warships in what has been branded a “national embarrassment”.

      >Ministers have had to turn to Germany to help fill the void left by the Royal Navy to meet its obligations in the Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea in April.

      >Sources told The i Paper that the UK will still be in command of the task force, but will be doing so **from the German flagship**.

      Heh 🙂

      No idea if it’s sensationalism and tbh. it’s great to have fallbacks in European NATO. Also, I have no idea how we have enough ships for that.

    2. PoliticsIsDepressing on

      If a certain someone in WWII read this headline they’d be over the moon.

    4. tree_boom on

      Obviously the low availability is a sucky point. It is quite frustrating to have the planned deployment scuppered by what are effectively political considerations rather than operational need, but there we go. Not the first nor the last time that such a thing will happen, and it’s good that Germany can step in to fill the gap.

    5. EvilFroeschken on

      Lol. Germany has like 10 frigates and 6 subs? Didn’t expect this would leave some to spare. I can remember the headlines when all 6 submarines were out of action for maintenance at the same time.

    6. BenButton123 on

      Why is every other post on this sub suddenly about the Royal Navy?

    8. beekop on

      The foreign policy makers have spread a declining Royal Navy too thinly to maintain the fig leaf of global capability – e.g. Freedom of navigation exercises in the Taiwan Strait, nuclear submarines in Australia etc – without adequately resourcing it. The military is run on a shoestring, there is no slack in the system.

    10. ctudor on

      ok, but this means nothing unless the article also tells why:

      1) has UK decommissioned ships and not replace them historically
      2) it happens that they are under a maintenance cycle for short term
      3) they are deployed on extraordinary missions in the middle east / asia that where not foresaw at the moment of the nato commitment
      4) they have the ships but have personel shortages, etc?!

    11. Zashkarn on

      Great british navy has fallen so far it has put officers in charge of german ships?

    12. LeroyoJenkins on

      Rule Britannia…as long as there’s no water on the way!

    13. Prize-Grapefruiter on

      what mission? NATO already invaded every country.

    14. Bango-TSW on

      It’s not just a national embaressment. It’s a complete disgrace.

    15. AMeasuredBerserker on

      The state of the UK armed forces is shocking and truly makes you question where all the budget is being spent to receive so little from it.

    17. Adorable-Database187 on

      So allies working together to fill their capability gaps, how refreshing.
      Isnt this the whole point of being allies

    18. OkKnowledge2064 on

      if the german navy has to help you out youve hit rock bottom. Our navy really is useless

    19. CruxMajoris on

      UK is currently battling a good two decades of naval cuts, but is currently building up a larger number of replacement vessels so in the future things will be better.

      It takes time to fix the issues the Royal Navy is facing, and shipbuilding isn’t a quick and easy process.

    20. Legio-XIII-Gemina on

      Looks like the Anglo-German naval arms race has finally been settled.

    21. SnooDrawings6556 on

      The rum ration was canceled, they banned the lash and sodomy is generally accepted. The three things holding together the Royal Navy are gone

    25. PsychedelicAwakening on

      I’m sorry but if your ships weren’t ready for trump they weren’t ready for any war to begin with

    26. watch-nerd on

      How can an island nation not have a navy in a high state of readiness?

      That would seem to throw away centuries of British strategic doctrine.

    27. Wooden_Employment449 on

      Its truly shocking we are down to single figures number of royal navy ships! If we went to war tomorrow we would be screwed and defeated within days. Youd think contingency planning would be happening NOW! Buy surplus FREMM, arleigh burke, whatever warships we can lay our hands on and get them into immediate service NOW!

    29. yubnubster on

      The UK isn’t a world spanning empire anymore, with a fleet to match, story of the day.

      We are building new ships, it’s going to take time, but that is the only solution to not having enough.

    30. Raz0rking on

      They get there, slowly. They have like a dozen ships being built right now.

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