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>Royal Navy warships will be left without anti-ship missiles and be forced to rely on naval guns because of cost-cutting, the Ministry of Defence has admitted.
>The Navy’s Harpoon missiles will retire from the fleet’s frigates and destroyers in 2018 without a replacement, while there will also be a two year gap without helicopter-launched anti-shipping missiles.
>Naval sources said the decision was “like Nelson deciding to get rid of his cannons and go back to muskets” and one senior former officer said warships would "no longer be able to go toe-to-toe with the Chinese or Russians".
>Harpoon missiles are unlikely to be replaced for up to a decade, naval sources said, leaving warships armed only with their 4.5in Mk 8 guns for anti-ship warfare. Helicopter-launched Sea Skua missiles are also going out of service next year and the replacement Sea Venom missile to be carried by Wildcat helicopters will not arrive until late 2020.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/15/royal-navy-to-lose-anti-ship-missiles-and-be-left-only-with-guns/
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S-surely we're just replacing them with lasers that can slice through several mountains, right??
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>>32015600
so the royal navys max engagement range is about 3 miles, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!
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>"no longer be able to go toe-to-toe with the Chinese or Russians"
>no longer
Holy fucking shit my sides. Without massive American support Ivan would have steamrolled Europe and the Atlantic 70 fucking years ago. With the exception of maybe Switzerland who could have held out for a year or so.
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There's already about 3 threads on this same topic with mostly the same replies.
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>>32015600
So the Royal Mavy is no longer an effective fighting force. What a sad, sad, sad day I think. Fuckin Nelson is rolling over in his grave right now.
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>>32015600
>the Royal Navy could defeat Russia single handedly
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>>32015600
Great White Fleet 2 : 20 Inch Gun Boogaloo when?
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Honestly, once people realized that they totally rely on the American Navy and their ships are never used, this kind of cutting on Navy spending was bound to happen to somebody's military. Just surprised it's the brits.
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>>32016031
The in-ability for people to check for similar treads on this bord is impressing desu
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>>32015600
Battleship advancements when?
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>>32015600
>three threads on the same scaremongering article
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>>32015600
FOR FUCK SAKE. Why don't they just build a ram onto the front of their ships. That's more cost effective than those dreadfully noisy guns anyway.
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>>32015600
Can they at least use SAMs in the anti surface role OTH?
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GET ME OUT
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>>32015600
What was the fucking point anyway?
Who were they planning to go to war with? Russia? It'll be a nuke war anyway.
Germany? Spain? Sweden? If some other place in the world, then they're the aggressor.
Go use the money to feed your starving child chimney sweeps you fucks.
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>>32015612
Nope, sorry. that's the not cucked Americans answer to future weaponry.
That and rail guns.
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