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The blaze broke out while the carrier was docked at Glenmallan on Friday night, a Royal Navy spokesperson said on Saturday. "A minor, isolated fire on HMS Queen Elizabeth was quickly brought under control and extinguished," the spokesman told the UK Defence Journal.Why didn't they say it ?
"To have one ยฃ3 billion aircraft carrier which breaks down is a misfortune, but to have two seems like carelessness," former Armed Forces Minister Mark Francois told the Daily Mail last month. "It is excruciatingly embarrassing for the navy. Just imagine if this carrier had actually been sailing off to war?"But on a more serious note, real miliary professionals call the British military a "joke" or a "Lilliputian army". The whole fighting force can't even fill a medium-sized football (a.k.a. soccer) stadium.
The British Armed Forces are the military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies. They also promote the UK's wider interests, support international peacekeeping efforts and provide humanitarian aidI hadn't realised that the monarch has the power to prevent unconstitutional use
The sovereign retains the power to prevent the unconstitutional use of the armed forces, including that of its nuclear arsenal.
144,00 regular service personnel - 32,000 Navy, 32.000 Air Force and 80,000 Army (& Ghurkas)That's why I said :
... the whole fighting force ...You don't win battles and wars with generals, cooks and D.I.E compliance officers ...
The Navy has 68 commissioned shipsDo you have any information how much of this materiel is in a combat-ready state ?
The Air Force has 168 combat aircraft, 18 reconnaissance aircraft, 12 tankers, 32 transport planes, 56 helicopters and 249 Trainer aircraft
... but they had to convert cruise ships during the Falklands warThat was a looooooooong time ago. When the Brits still had a queen ...
Comment: The British navy like the whole Western leadership is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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