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the shocking state of the British Navy. I'm starting to think it's not a good thing. Let's take a look at it. What? Navy Mark. Yo. All right. Looks pretty good, right? Looks like a boat or something. Recently, my video entitled The Navy with More Admirals and Warships caused a bit of a stir online when it emerged that the once great Royal Navy was so reduced in size that it has more senior officers of flag rank than actual warships, a truly unthinkable situation even 30 years ago. What as they got rid of all the to be put through a process termed managed decline by generations of politicians. The armed forces have likewise been decimated until we faced a situation recently with the outbreak of the war in Iran when Britain was seemingly incapable of dispatching at short notice a single warship to the defense of So what they what he's saying is that the reason why they didn't help us in Iran isn't because they didn't want to. It's because they can't. This is Great Britain that took over half of the whole [ __ ] world and they crashed out on a level that they can't even get a single boat over there. One of her sovereign bases overseas Cyprus recently attacked. So, in the interest of clarity, I decided to look closely at the current Royal Navy to determine what state it is in in March 2026. There's a title of this is the Royal Navy on Course for National Embarrassment. The first thing to note is that it is too small. Former senior officers and defense analysts have been banging on about the size of the Royal Navy for decades as it lacks sufficient ships to be an effective force any longer. Figures do indeed show this. Currently, the Royal Navy has 63 commission ships with this number. Wait, the Iranian Navy was double the size of the British Navy. Oh god. Oh man. What? Well, yeah. I mean, they're all sunk now, but like still, dude. Only 25 are really fighting ships. That is submarines, aircraft carriers, destroyers, and frig. Yeah. The balance are support patrol and survey vessels which though armed are not true fighting warships. Wait, why not? Such a small fleet might be sufficient for a small nation engaged only in self-defense. But Britain still has some 15 overseas territories, many of which like the Falkland Islands require naval protection. Oh, plus Britain is of course involved with a variety of defense tasks worldwide. So they actually couldn't even defend cuts. The Navy is hardressed to fulfill them. Wow. So of the fighting ships in 2026, Britain possesses 10 submarines, two aircraft carriers, 10 submarines. Iran has had 20 had 25. Iran had 25. Britain had six destroyers and seven frigots. Six destroyers, seven frigots. Okay, that's the same as this. I don't know, but it said destroy. They don't have one that says destroyers. Oh my, that's a decade earlier in 2016. The situation wasn't much better. 11 submarines. Dude, this is the s Dude, look at that. What a sad infographic. That's brutal. Aircraft carriers, six destroyers, and 13 frig. 20 years ago. In 2006, the fleet had nine submarines. So, they made a new one carriers. Three. That's a lot. One helicopter carrier. Uh-huh. 10 destroyers and 13 frigots. Yeah, that's a pretty good amount, right? Seems like a lot years ago in 1996, the Royal Navy had 17 submarines. Seven. What happened to seven submarines? Aircraft carriers. Oh, that looks way better. Destroyers and 22 frig. And it is generally agreed should still be this large as the defense commitments are basically the same as they were in 1996. Oh, it makes sense. Yeah. So roughly the Royal Navy's fighting fleet has been reduced by half in 30 years. But so they did they didn't even lose a war. They just lost half their navy anyway. Oops. Is just as busy. Another issue is redundancy. Ships require regular maintenance and sometimes complete refits or updates that can take years. It means that at any one time numbers of vessels will be doing nothing. And so you require sufficient vessels to make up this shortfall and still maintain operational commitments. Sadly, as you will see, a good majority of the current fighting fleet is immobilized, undergoing refit or maintenance with no ships able to cover these losses. The boats don't work. Oh no, I just also a few months ago I made a video about the parlor state of Britain's Seaborn nuclear deterrent. Yeah, how's that? We operate four Vanguard class ballistic missile submarines. Good. And at any one time, one is supposed to be on patrol, one is undergoing training, one is in refit, and one is undergoing trials. Smart. We do know that the aging V-boats are requiring more frequent and longer refits and maintenance to stay in service. This of course is common sense. These are highly complex but elderly pieces of machinery. Your car goes the same way after all. Yeah, sure. In 2023, the oldest boat in the class, HMS Vanguard, was returned to service after a refit lasting 7 years. So between 2016 and 2023, officially only three V-boats were doing the work of four. That must have meant that each patrol was extended from 3 to 4 months, adding enormous strain to crews running submerged for such long periods of time. Yeah, that would suck. Currently, HMS Victorious, the second boat in the class, is also in long-term refit from 2023 for at least 3 to four years, perhaps longer. HMS Vengeance, they're all on repair entered a long overhaul period and reactor refueling between March 2012 and February 2016. Oh my god. All this means that the Royal Navy only has three V-boats in operation at any one time, not four as advertised, with one always out of service in refit. So, one's always broken, right? Time. We can probably also summize that of the remaining three, at least one must have had some kind of fault or maintenance issue in these periods. The probably the other three are working just fine. All these elderly boats are in fact going to sea with serious maintenance issues or dangerous faults simply because the continuous at sea deterrent has to be maintained somehow. I would hazard a guess that gaps must have occurred in Britain's continuous at sea deterrent, though I doubt the Ministry of Defense or the government would ever admit such. No. The state of Britain's inadequate flirtillaa of fleet submarines is truly shocking. So you're this is actually so this this this fall off this is like the French level of falloff like the French used to just I mean they would just show up and kill everybody. They I mean you tell like I mean back in the day godamn I I I don't know what's going on. Napoleon is a badass. Yeah. This is just this is nuts. We have six national embarassment submarines in the Navy which is too and incredibly in March 2026 only one is operation compared to the US. Let's examine this situation. Mhm. HMS Astute is undergoing a midlife revalidation period that will last for years. HMS Ambush has been in long-term maintenance since 2022. Mhm. HMS Artful has been undergoing regeneration and maintenance since 2023. Right. HMS Audacious has been in refit since 2023. So everything's broken. Everything's broken and they're trying to repair it, but they can't repair it faster than it breaks. So, it's just you're basically in like a like you guys ever had a car that like enters like maintenance entropy where it's like you take the car in and it's like the windshield wipers don't work and they find out that the exhaust is broken or you know you've got to replace you know the [ __ ] uh I don't know like the fuel pump or oh wait a minute the uh axle is is [ __ ] misaligned and then you take it in. Yeah, it's limbo, right? and like it gets fixed and then 3 weeks later something else goes wrong with it and like eventually you just realize that it's like you know you've got the uh the ship of thesis right you've got a an old car that's been replaced so many [ __ ] times this is sad and HMS Agamemnon is undergoing testing and sea trials and won't actually enter full-time service until March 2027 seven. That leaves HMS Anson as the only operational British fleet submarine at this time. They only have one submarine. Time to conquer the UK. Yeah, this is the British Royal Navy has been reduced to one submarine. This is the same level of falloff that like a chicken used to be a T-Rex, you know. Like this is bad. One active hunter killer submarine to cover the entire thing. Oh god. She is currently out in the Middle East after leaving her base in Western Australia. Just go get it. Which military genius thought it was a good idea to reduce the Hunter killer fleet to just six boats? Six boats. You see the point about redundancy? Five boats are out of service with nothing to cover them. Moving on to the aircraft carriers. Britain currently has two enormous carriers, though insufficient surface vessels to protect them properly. So they have zero. Okay. So then you have zero. So they literally Wait a minute. So Kier Starmer flexing trying to say that he was going to send an aircraft carrier over there. Wait a minute. So do you think maybe that's the reason why Trump didn't want them to send if this is true? Is it possible that Trump didn't want them to send the aircraft carrier over because they would have to defend the aircraft carrier? It could be a hazard. Yeah. Oh my god. It would get in the way. Yeah. It would spread them thin like Oh my god. No. Keep that rusty piece of [ __ ] up Only one is actually operational. HMS Wales held at high readiness to sail to support military operations in the Middle East. Though without a protective umbrella of destroyers and frigots, she could very well end up being a3 billion pound target. There's only3 billion. That's cheap. I thought it would be like more. Yeah. I mean, cuz isn't a B2 bomber like $2 billion? I mean, I know pounds are worth more, but like I mean, still like I I like the other one, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is in dry dock at Ross in Scotland undergoing extensive repairs to her extremely temperamental propulsion system. Oh no. Moving on to destroyers. Successive governments have seen fit to think that only six destroyers are adequate, which is clearly deranged and incredibly irresponsible. How many destroyers Troyer class ships did Britain have at the height of World War II? How many did they have? This is honestly, bro. Like, that's insane. I I I I don't even know what to say. Limp dick country. That's It's insane. The Royal Navy was bigger than the US Navy. Yeah. Like because I Yeah, that's I thought we probably had a bigger Navy now, but like I mean I thought they still like you know that was like their thing. It's the British Royal Navy. I mean like I mean I watch every Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I mean like those are like the guys and I So out of six vessels how many are operational in March 2026? No. A grand total of two. You were at 277 and now you're at two. Oh my god. How is this possible? I don't know. I've never This is It's unheard of. HMS Dragon, a vessel recently in the news that was supposed to be sent to Cyprus to protect British interests there. an HMS Duncan. The other four are all laid up for one reason or another. Uhhuh. And that's it. That's all they've got. They don't even look cool. So all of these are just totally crashed out. Nobody even like these are like photos probably from like Oh, this photo is from 1994. is at Portsmouth undergoing a 68 million pound upkeep. And I don't know why upgrade program. And what about the frig? The workh horses of the Let me let me just uh I think I might have had a bug with my audio. Let me go and uh I'm going to close it and just reopen it. I don't know why that happened. And uh anyway, but right voice probably the video. Yeah, I'll go back. I just I didn't know. This is insane. How is it this bad? Like I I this is genuinely shocking. How could you have a falloff this embarrassing? Let me go back and I'll I'll go to this again. HMS Diamond is doing likewise after a deployment to the Red Sea. And HMS Defender is at Portsmouth undergoing a 68 million pound upkeep and And what about the frigots, the workh horses of the fleet? Here things have improved slightly. The Royal Navy has a fleet of seven Type 23 frigots and in March 2026, five are active. Five. Where were they at then? What? Historical. The group destroyers and frigots 1945. The combined category was 801. Where'd they go? Oh god, this is horrible. Decoy, thanks for the raid. Man, we out for outsourced our defense to the USA. This is just pathetic. Two are not. HMS Richmond is due to be decommissioned this year after 31 years service with no replacement. And HMS Kent is wait. They're crashing it out and it's not going to get replaced. With no replacement. So it's just it they're getting rid of it. An HMS Kent is undergoing deep maintenance at Devport since 2024. But only five operational frigots is still a shockingly low figure. Five. They are all old vessels as well. If we compare today's active fleet with the fleet that retook the Falklands in 1982. Oh no. Oh no. Yeah. 50 years ago. 40 years ago. Sorry. State of the Navy is plain to see. If another Falkland's type crisis was to emerge today, would we deal with it? Probably not. In 1982, the Royal Navy was quite large. Britain at the time had three aircraft carriers, 12 destroyers compared to six today, and 43 frig compared to just seven today. So in So they're losing a frigot a year basically. Like every year it goes down by one. In 1982, the Royal Navy deployed the Faulland's task force, which was two aircraft carriers, eight destroyers, and 16 frigots, plus an assortment of other vessels, and still managed to fulfill its other worldwide obligations. Don't send this video this video to Vladimir Putin. Don't let him find out about this. If the Faullands kicked off, maybe theirs is bad, too. Navy could at a stretch deploy one aircraft carrier, two destroyers, and five frigots, but only if it stripped all active vessels from all other juicies worldwide. If you look hard enough, you will find that another class of warship is actually doing most of the work in 2026. That's the That's a boat. Look how small that is. Like I feel like I've seen a lot of boats bigger than really like this. Are you kidding? Warships remained largely out of action. The riverclass offshore patrol vessels. The riverclass offshore. It's not even called a battleship. At a little under 2,000 tons each, this class are really corvettes or sloops, the type of small warship that existed in earlier Royal Navy fleets. But they don't have that designation today due to not being armed with anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. Just so you could just So it' be like in Starcraft or like Age of Empires where or Starcraft where like you just have the Hydrolisk that's just or Mutilisk, right? Those are the ones that fly. That's just or void raid that's just killing the siege tanks and they just can't do anything. Like it just sits there. So, wait a minute. Well, does that mean that you can just fly a drone into one of these things and they can't do anything about it? I I mean, really, I wonder if they would lose a war against pirate boats. Probably not, but it would be close. So, you could just like So, they literally So, oh my god, guns. Retrofitting these vessels might be a good idea to make them more like little frigots or corvettes to fill out the Navy's pool of warships. Currently, there are seven vessels in service. And incredibly, all seven are currently operational protecting the seas around Britain. Look what was Dreadnot. Falkland Islands and also Wait, did they have Dreadnot ships back then? Do they have any more Dreadnot ships anymore? I I didn't even hear that word. They did. They're all gone. Let me look at that after this. These insufficiently armed vessels are really doing the jobs of frigots and destroyers, which is an alarming indictment of the state of the Royal Navy in 2026. Anyway, there it is in black and white. Check it out for yourself. You will be shocked. A tiny navy with lots of commitments and too few ships and personnel, crippled by decades of political mismanagement, and now barely able to send to sea a single submarine or destroyer, let alone a fleet. It's enough to make you cry. It is said that if you stand beside the grave of Admiral Lord Nelson and listen carefully, you can actually hear him rotating at about 1,500 revolutions a minute. Man, many thanks for watching. Subscribe and share. Also, visit my audio the Navy with more admirals than warships channel, war stories with Mark Felton. You can also help to support both of my channels at PayPal and Patreon. Let me link you guys this guy's video. Wow, that is so You're telling me they had an entire class of ship? Um, oh my god. Holy [ __ ] And so they don't even they don't even have these anymore. They're gone. So like then they're not even part of the conversation anymore. List of dreadnot battleships in the Royal Navy. They went extinct. This is insane. They're the same in battleships. Okay. So it was they they just get renamed. There's no way though, right? I mean like they got replaced by destroyers. Okay. Okay. Maybe that's it. They're the same as battleships. They're not an endangered species, though. The entire the entire navy is an endangered species. Yeah. I I mean, this is just insane. Uh I I don't even know what to say. Dreadnot was a battleship, so they've just totally crashed out. The shocking state of Britain 2026 is a more accurate title. Careful, Mark. You might get arrested for causing anxiety. Oh my god. Mark Felton Productions. I didn't even know it was this bad. British public, stop the boats. Royal Navy, we'll start with ours. I I So, are you telling me like it? Meanwhile, they were doing this in the 1800s. What is this? This is in the battleships aren't used anymore. Really? Well, let me see here. The world's largest floating dry dock was towed across the Atlantic to Bermuda. When Britain needed a solution for ship repairs in the Atlantic, the engineers in the 1860s built the largest floating dry dock ever attempted, a 380 ft iron structure weighing over 8,000 tons. Oh my [ __ ] god. And and now we don't even use battleship. This is okay. Well, uh, for the love of the game. Yeah. I I mean, this is just embarrassing, guys. I I I don't even know what to say. How big floating dry docks are. Yes. This is ridiculous. So, Turd Worlders couldn't figure this out today and they never will. And uh it's just shocking to me. It is genuinely shocking to see how bad this is. I mean, how big is Russia's navy? Like, let me see how big it It's It's got to be big, right? They 58 submarines. Look at this. See? Yeah. Look at this. They got a bunch of [ __ ] submarines, an aircraft carrier, four cruisers, 12 destroyers, the Corvette. So, they basically they they got a lot of submarines. That's what they're doing. Is it 58's? Not that much. Well, how many h how many US Navy submarines are there? How about the US? That's 68 to 7. Yeah, it's about the same as we have. Yeah. Uh, and also Yeah, it's not that's not so bad. Yeah, I feel like it's 68. That's a pretty good amount, right? Yeah. I mean, I know the Air Force has submarines, too, and so does the so does the army, but like still. And uh what is this here? How about China? Well, let me see how like how big is the German Navy? I feel like I didn't even know they they I never even heard of that. 60 65 commission ships, six submarines. So, wait a Yeah. Well, that's what I was saying, right? I mean, so German Navy, they have it. They do. Like, look, it says German Navy. It's right there. That's why I looked it up. I mean, it's a pretty big country. do they So Iran mogs every Does Iran's navy mog every other country in Europe individually uh uh before the recent conflict. There's no way this is true, right? No. Iran's name Mog every other European navy individually. Okay, but like Okay, so wait, wait a minute. So France All right, so France has 128. Wait, Italy has 285. Okay, so it All right. All right. Has respectable regional defense. Yeah, I don't even know what to say. Holy [ __ ] man. Quality matters. Yeah, but they got all the little ships. That's the thing, too. Look at the Jouring Navy during World War II. I mean, I don't even know what to say. The UK is tied with Vietnam. Check Poland. I mean, I don't know. Did they say anything about Poland here? Let me see what it says. Uh, Poland. No, it's not on here. Uh, yeah, I don't know about that. So, look up China. I mean, I it this is just insane, man. I mean, what a fall off. I didn't even know that was possible to fall off on that level. Holy [ __ ] That is embarrassing. Uh, it Okay, well, there it is, guys. Uh, I guess the the the Navy from [ __ ] the the British Royal Navy, the British Royal Navy is just a joke