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The National Audit Office (NAO) has reported a massive jump in Royal Navy ships and submarines "cannibalizing" parts in order to go to sea and the practice has increased by 49 percent over the past five years. It also found that the construction of the submarine HMS Artful had been delayed because parts had been "borrowed."
The Royal Navy has been massively reduced from its heyday in the 1940s and the current fleet has only 19 frigates and destroyers and seven attack submarines.
Many of these ships have been struggling to go to sea because of a lack of spare parts, according to the NAO report.
In one case, the construction of the new submarine HMS Artful was delayed by 42 days because other subs had "borrowed" key parts. This also added another £5 million (US$6.6 million) to the cost of its construction.
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In February, it was reported that all seven of the Navy's nuclear submarines were out of action due to repairs or breakdowns.
Thousands of 'Borrowing' Incidents
In the 2016, there were 795 occasions when spare parts were borrowed from other vessels, and 3,230 instances overall since 2012.
The NAO said that although "cannibalizing" was often the only way to get a ship ready to go to sea it also cost taxpayers an extra £40 million (US$53 million).
"In the past two years, the Navy has removed an estimated £92 million [US$122 million] from its maritime support in-year budgets," said the NAO report.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not routinely monitor the impact of "cannibalization" across the Navy but "considers and assesses equipment cannibalization and trends over time for individual vessel types."
Lack of Accountability
The NAO criticized the Navy for having no overall accountability for managing equipment cannibalization and said this "information gap" made it difficult to determine when equipment cannibalization is becoming routine.
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HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHO!
(That was Xi Jinping.)
The English have for centuries believed they were a superior race, (just ask Cecil Rhodes and his pals who founded the RIAA in London and later the CFR in New York,) and entitled to loot and plunder the world and its browner peoples.
That mantle has fallen on the shoulders of the USA ever since the British Empire exhausted itself fighting the far superior German people - twice - in two World Wars, (both started by the English.) Now, many of the English no longer believe their own Royal Family, supposedly the creme de la creme of their race, is even human, but that they are actually lizards.
The English have to get used to the fact that THEY themselves are now a brown people of lesser intelligence and no power or relevance in the world.
Soon, their bratty children, the Americans, will also have to get used to a new status as powerless paupers kow-towing to the newly rich and powerful yellow peoples of Asia.
Be not afraid, for God will not be mocked. What ye sow, that shall ye also reap.