The Royal Navy NEW Aircraft Carriers Are Eating the Fleet

The Royal Navy in late 2019 announced the composition of its first-ever aircraft carrier battle group. And it’s both good and bad news for the storied fleet. Good news because the Royal Navy just barely should be able to generate all the ships and planes it need to deploy an entirely British battle group. Bad news because frequent deployments with the same mix of ships clearly is unsustainable as the Royal Navy shrinks, the inevitable result of decades of declining budgets. HMS Queen Elizabeth, the lead vessel in a two-ship class of conventionally-fueled carriers, is slated to deploy for the first time in 2021. Fleet officials told reporters the flattop will sail with two Type 45 destroyers including HMS Dragon, two Type 23 frigates including HMS Northumberland, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, the tanker RFA Tideforce and fleet stores ship RFA Fort Victoria. Queen Elizabeth’s air wing for the deployment, which could take the carrier group through the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf en route to the Pacific Ocean, will include 24 F-35B stealth jump jets, including U.S. Marine Corps aircraft, in addition to helicopters. That’s a lot of combat power. But it stretches the U.K. armed forces’ capacity. The Royal Navy possesses just six destroyers, 13 frigates and six attack submarines. But usually more than half of those vessels at any given time are in shipyards for repairs or refits. In deploying with four destroyers and frigates plus a submarine, Queen Elizabeth will leave the United Kingdom with just a handful of surface warships and potentially one attack submarine for other taskings. The fleet’s current deployment model, for the most part, sends out single warships on solo patrols, each at their own pace. With two new aircraft carriers slated to begin deploying over the next two years, the U.K. fleet must figure out how to deploy, as a cohesive force, large numbers of warships comprising a carrier battle group. All the information in this video came from the:https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/royal-navy%E2%80%99s-new-aircraft-carriers-are-eating-fleet-115461 ► Thumbnail/Video just For Illustration ► Before Comment , Please connect your tongue to your brain! ► This video is made under fair use policy, also this material is made from public published domain for people with hearing and seeing disability. • Watch more videos: Tensions with China: U.S. looks to Deploy New Missiles to Asia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n16URPcKxNs US Navy Awards Contract Modification to HII for CVN-74 RCOH planning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcocOEwRakU Rising Tensions in South China Sea cast Shadow over ASEAN summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOYJgoIX6s8 This Is How the U.S. Air Force Would Fight China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBzQJEUVxsU Why US Air Force Needs this DEADLY Fighter Jet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmm-iVouiTk #RoyalNavy #HMSQueenElizabeth DISCLAIMER: Information, Facts or Opinion expressed in this Video are Presented as Sources and do not reflects views of Ultimate US Military and hence, Ultimate US Military is not liable or responsible for the same. The Sources are responsible for accuracy, Completeness, suitaibility and Validity of any information in this Documentary. Title 17, US Code (Sections 107-118 of the copyright law, Act 1976): All media in this video is used for purpose of review & commentary under terms of fair use. All footage, & images used belong to their respective companies.