Royal Navy Sees Victory

The Russians have experimented with psychic powers for 70 years. I have the sight. I found this after posting my hunt for Bond. Britain can not trust Trump and his Redneck Traitors who are waging a heated culture war with half of the United States. Unity is dissolving. Putin may have a tight grip on our Fake President. My Bond will not be concerned with ticket sales. Victoria and I will make a Propaganda movie that will save Western Humankind.

Jon

https://news.usni.org/2018/06/25/failure-provide-u-k-royal-navy-escorts-new-carriers-potentially-dangerous-warn-lawmakers

LONDON — The U.K.’s new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers should be able to conduct warfighting missions without support from allied forces, an influential parliamentary committee insisted last week. 

The regeneration of fading anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities, the retention of amphibious shipping and the acquisition of a surface ship-launched land attack missile must also be top priorities for a cash-strapped Royal Navy, according to the House of Commons’ Defence Committee (HCDC).

Last month the UK’s national security adviser, Mark Sedwill, claimed that the carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) and the future HMS Prince of Wales (R09) would be unlikely ever to deploy on high-end combat operations unless escorted by friendly units. The 70,000-ton platforms would “inevitably be used in a context of allied operations of some kind, if used in a contested environment”, he told the committee in May.

But in a report published on June 18, the HCDC responded: “Operating aircraft carriers without the sovereign ability to protect them is complacent at best and potentially dangerous at worst. The U.K. should be able to sustain this capacity without recourse to other states.”

The report – entitled “Beyond 2 percent: A preliminary report on the Modernizing Defence Program” – is intended to pre-empt the imminent release, by the Ministry of Defence, of the key findings of a major review of U.K. military capabilities and requirements. The MoD faces a funding shortfall of up to $26.5 billion over the next decade.

The Royal Navy is fighting fiscal battles on several fronts. A six-year delay in approving the construction of new Dreadnought-class strategic nuclear missile submarines means the existing Vanguard-class SSBNs will have to remain operational well past their design life expiry date, the report notes. There has been a “dramatic increase in the cannibalization of parts from ships and helicopters, and even from nuclear submarines, due in part to the reduction in support budgets,” according to the HCDC.