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>>53163744
Reporting in

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>tfw you will never raid Yankee shipping under the glorious Stars and Bars

The strongest. we rule(d) the waves.

>>53164323
Why and when did military stopped to be a priority for the UK?

WE WUZ

not anymore. sad really.

>>53164410
>flag related

>>53164410
Post WW2 I guess. Uncle Sam got a bit out of hand so we let him do his thing.

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>>53163907
>Noli
>Ancona
>Gaeta
>Relevant

Stop the goats

>>53163744
we do but our Navy is dire atm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w

Hello guys

(Our drug smugglers use artisanal submarines to transport drug from colombia to somewhere in central américa and then the us

>>53164410
Suez Crisis

it was the enf for Britian and France as first rate powers officailly

but their power projection was so low after the second world war that unofficially they lost their superpower status during/after WW2

oli

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>>53164533

I'll have you know we had a better hits to shots fired ratio for u-boats than the Germans in World War I.

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>>53164410
They had like no money after the war was over (weren't you still on rationing until the 1950s?), and we had built a navy larger than the entire rest of the world's so it was pointless to contest naval dominance with an ally.

Shame you scrapped Vanguard; it was very hansom.

Standing by for Liberia.

>>53164650
Aussie bro has nailed it.

>>53164577
Didn't the liberals say they were going to increase funding for the navy?

>>53164410

Q U I T E
U N U S U A L
T O
B E
H O N E S T
F A M I L Y

Im here senpai

It has been a short tradition since our country is barely 240 years old, but controlling the world's oceans still counts right?

>tfw we used to rule the waves
>tfw anglos happened
thank

>>53164533
Protectionist ideas and fear I suppose has let our military complex get out of hand

I like it. I'm glad it seems to be the only consistent thing all of us can agree deserves to be well-funded.

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>>53163744
we had a pirate queen
dont think anyone else could say that

>>53163744
Thanks to us fighting off British maritime attacks from the caribbean this continent speaks Spanish and not English.

Galleon Trade sub human fag reporting in.

>>53164410
The fuck
Whereabouts are you posting from?

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>>53163744
Sure

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>>53164410
wat

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>>53163744
only chips and no fish

>>53164410
the washington naval treaty was when they officially signed away dominance by agreeing to the 5:5:3 ratio, tieing with the US (japan was the 3).

Of course due to financial issues they werent as strong at that point as they had historically been (they historically tried to be as strong as the next two most powerful navies combined), but this was the first official time they planned on not being 'the strongest'

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sup

>>53168833
RIP The British Fishing Industry.

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reportingggg

>>53169054

How is it possible to have all those nice ships and planes and stuff and be so incredibly incompetent as italians?

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>>53163744
WE HAD CARRIERS N SHEEET

>>53169359
Not actually wanting to fight a war to start with.

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>>53169420
Us too.

These days our Navy is pretty pathetic, which is shit because - y'know - we're a fucking island.

>>53169359
i wonder why america don't get canada to have a relevant navy again while they suffer the reduction of military budget and want some help these days

>>53166664
>to us

implaying you were colombians in sXVIII
lel

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We have a boat. Does this count?

>>53170423
But on the bright side, your government spends alot more money on infrastructure and education, instead of fancy toys for power projection

Also, we have at least one raft.

>>53171398
>cockhole flag

Hmm..

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>>53164902
>They had like no money after the war was over (weren't you still on rationing until the 1950s?)

Yes. Then to make things WORSE the Cold War happened and the Royal Navy had to concentrate almost entirely on the Soviet submarine threat around the GIUK gap, the responsibility of holding NATO's naval front line fell mostly on the UK. The expensive anti-submarine capabilities used up most of the navy's resources. So the UK had to sacrifice power projection to do that job properly.

Plans for large carriers were scrapped and for decades we only had the small Invincible Class carriers which were originally designed for anti-submarine operations not power projection. Development of the Harrier and the later invasion of the Falkland islands literally saved the Royal Navy as a global force - before 1982 the government had plans to make it a mere regional navy. The phrase some people like to use for what almost happened to the UK is "Belgium with nukes".

Anyways after the Cold War things got better. Several years after the dissolution of the USSR and ruin of the Soviet fleets, the British government ordered two expeditionary-sized aircraft carriers (the Queen Elizabeth Class), escorts good enough to protect them on global operations and began the slow process of building the navy around power projection once again, like it was before the World Wars.

Now with the defence budget guaranteed to rise with economic growth, and the first planned expansion of the frigate/destroyer fleet since WW2, the Royal Navy is starting to make a comeback. The general election result last May was more crucial than a lot of people realise...

>>53166664
>us

reporting in we stopped portugal from becoming a superpower.

>>53166631
We had Lizzie I

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>>53164902
>hansom.
Or handsome, rather. Learned a new word though.

>>53169054
Littorios were very pretty.

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>>53164491
NAVIGATORS N' SHIT

>>53177516
>Crashingthisplanewithnosurvivorstugal