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Originally Posted by jambutty
My sentiments entirely tea or rather tealeaf. We may not have the quantity but in the manpower and these days womanpower we have the quality. But then we always have had.
The French have never forgiven us for putting Napoleon in his place and the Spanish are still sore at losing their Armada to a smaller fleet.
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I still do some work for the RN, and last year I visited Whale Island (you'll know where I mean Jambutty), in Portsmouth. Definitely not the Royal Navy we served in
As for technology...well, on paper.... yes....in practice...no. As for carriers....I served on HMS Centaur, and we had real planes then. Now the Harriers have a combat air patrol range and duration of 50 miles and 30 minutes. A Typhoon would be in and out in 2 minutes flat.
Fleet size....When I served in the Far East, the Far East Fleet was 38 ships(Belfast the flagship). Now the whole RN is less than that. We've almost as many Fleet Auxiliary's as warships
Never mind, I can go back to bed now
