Posted on Jan 3, 2018
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The Royal Navy is making all its ships be unsuitable for sea Duty due to lack of spare parts (money for green projects but not the royal navy?)or selling off what does work to get some cold cash so they can't afford the junkie F-35 B models LOL is my guess. Pretty soon, the Royal Navy will be the size of the Israeli Navy. LOL
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PO3 John Wagner
No reason to be uninclusive... The British are still the Queens of the sea...(or did I miss the point entirely?)
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In November 2015, the British MoD confirmed that HMS Ocean is to be decommissioned in 2018 with no like-for-like replacement. HMS Ocean cost £150 million when it entered service nearly 20 years ago in 1998. Britain has sold ship to Brazil for £84million and leaves the Royal Navy without a helicopter carrier. Naval bosses claim the money is desperately needed to plug an estimated £20billion black hole in defence finances. The Royal Navy's new flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth is not expected to be fully operational until 2020.
The Brazilian Navy have decided to abandon the refit of the aircraft carrier Sao Paulo and decommission the vessel after a series of technical issues and accidents. The Sao Paulo is a Clemenceau class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1963 by the French Navy as Foch and was transferred in 2000 to Brazil, where she became the new flagship of the Brazilian Navy. The earlier intention of the navy was that the vessel would continue in active service until 2039, at which time the vessel would be nearly 80 years old.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/brazil-purchase-hms-ocean-84-million/
The Brazilian Navy have decided to abandon the refit of the aircraft carrier Sao Paulo and decommission the vessel after a series of technical issues and accidents. The Sao Paulo is a Clemenceau class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1963 by the French Navy as Foch and was transferred in 2000 to Brazil, where she became the new flagship of the Brazilian Navy. The earlier intention of the navy was that the vessel would continue in active service until 2039, at which time the vessel would be nearly 80 years old.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/brazil-purchase-hms-ocean-84-million/
Brazil announce purchase of HMS Ocean for 84 million
Brazil has now confirmed the purchase of British helicopter carrier HMS Ocean.
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PO3 John Wagner
Well, like Margaret Thatcher said that's the trouble with socialism. Eventually you run out of other people's money.
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PO3 John Wagner - Excerpts: Largely driven by Brexit budget shortfalls, the latest review is caught between a requirement to find £20 billion in savings and the MoD’s recent campaigning to ramp up defence spending. The likely outcome is a further round of cutbacks focused on the Royal Navy and Army, with implications — such as the potential end of amphibious operations — for the nation’s security posture in the decades to come.
The 2015 UK Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) saw the UK Ministry of Defence repeatedly commit to a £24.4 billion increase in spending on equipment over 10 years, leading to the £178 billion Defence Equipment Plan being unveiled in 2016. However, the UK faces the prospect of a budget shortfall that would restrict the MoD’s ability to fund key programmes. This shortfall is partially due to increased costs due to Brexit, with the pound’s fall against the US dollar raising the cost of buying American platforms such as the F-35B Lightning II and P-8A Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft. However, a significant portion of the £24.4 billion increase in spending was to be found through savings, rather than simply more investment. With the Ministry of Defence struggling to find the required £20 billion in savings, before the increased costs of procurement are considered, the UK now finds itself in the midst of a fresh review of national security capabilities. This effort is being dubbed a “mini-SDSR.” Whilst MoD leaders had pushed for an increase in defence spending from the Treasury, under the current economic conditions this seems unlikely. As a result, it is far more likely that there will be a further round of cuts to key programmes.
http://www.avascent.com/2017/11/brexits-toll-defence-cuts-loom-as-uk-looks-to-reduce-budget-shortfall/
The 2015 UK Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) saw the UK Ministry of Defence repeatedly commit to a £24.4 billion increase in spending on equipment over 10 years, leading to the £178 billion Defence Equipment Plan being unveiled in 2016. However, the UK faces the prospect of a budget shortfall that would restrict the MoD’s ability to fund key programmes. This shortfall is partially due to increased costs due to Brexit, with the pound’s fall against the US dollar raising the cost of buying American platforms such as the F-35B Lightning II and P-8A Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft. However, a significant portion of the £24.4 billion increase in spending was to be found through savings, rather than simply more investment. With the Ministry of Defence struggling to find the required £20 billion in savings, before the increased costs of procurement are considered, the UK now finds itself in the midst of a fresh review of national security capabilities. This effort is being dubbed a “mini-SDSR.” Whilst MoD leaders had pushed for an increase in defence spending from the Treasury, under the current economic conditions this seems unlikely. As a result, it is far more likely that there will be a further round of cuts to key programmes.
http://www.avascent.com/2017/11/brexits-toll-defence-cuts-loom-as-uk-looks-to-reduce-budget-shortfall/
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