Britain makes an international joke again, and this kind of international joke may directly kill Britain. British Defense Secretary James Shapps announced that he would send an aircraft carrier strike group to Japan in 2025, while at the same time containing China.
The British Navy was once known as the "Imperial Navy on which the sun never sets", but now that the British Navy has long since sunset, it may be difficult to support the British Navy's ambition to return to the Asia-Pacific region. In 1840, the British Navy directly knocked on the door of China with its ships and guns, forcing the Qing Dynasty to sign the "Treaty of Nanjing", and China entered an era of unbearable review.
After more than 180 years, Britain will repeat its old tricks, fantasizing that ships and guns will once again threaten China, but the British Navy is no longer the "invincible armada" of the past. The British Navy is ostensibly equipped with many technologically advanced ships and submarines, including 2 aircraft carriers, 2 dock landing ships, 6 destroyers, 11 frigates, plus 11 nuclear submarines, two of which are the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales, which are 70,000-ton conventionally powered aircraft carriers built by the United Kingdom, carrying F-35B carrier-based fighters.
As for the destroyers, there are 6 Type 45 destroyers and 11 Type 23 frigates, the former has a full load displacement of up to 8,500 tons, but this kind of bluffing destroyer, the overall combat capability is worrying, there have been 5 ** collective nest scenes, the most important thing is that the Type 45 destroyer is difficult to carry out ocean-going operations, and can only operate in the British coastal waters and assume the role of a gatekeeper.
Since the 45 type destroyer entered service, it has been plagued by the WR-21 gas turbine engine, and the tragic situation is that there are many problems, the motor system often jumps off, and it has become the "dock king", and the worst thing is that one of the Type 45 destroyers broke twice in a row during the overseas deployment, and more than half of the six Type 45 destroyers have been on duty for less than four weeks a year. This destroyer, which had high hopes for the British Navy, hoped to be disgraced and changed its predecessor, the Type 42 destroyer, was sunk twice in the Battle of the Falklands.
The Type 45 destroyer adopts the installation of an active dual-array rotary radar, and is equipped with a 48-unit vertical launch system, which can be equipped with the "Aster"-30 anti-aircraft missile, while focusing on air defense operations, it is equipped with 8 Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and the Type 45 destroyer, which is regarded by the United Kingdom as a fighting ship, is directly destroyed in the most dazzling integrated electric propulsion system, praised as leading the trend, but has become the largest weak electricity, which is likely to make Britain fall into the dilemma of having no destroyers available.
The state of the Type 23 frigates is not much better, a quarter of the ships have not performed a day of missions throughout the year, and the overall state of the ships has directly made the British Navy cry without tears, and will be replaced by 8 Type 26 frigates and 5 Type 31 frigates in the future.
Similarly, Britain has also sung the decline of the overall combat power of the navy, and is in the "worst stage of history",* likened to "porcupines", a group of "herbivores" with good defense but limited offensive capabilities. The number of British naval vessels has declined, and 19 combat ships are stretched thin, and the actual number of ships available is even smaller, except for ships in a state of maintenance or overhaul.
According to the plan of the new British fleet, 5 Type 31 general-purpose frigates and 8 Type 26 anti-submarine frigates will fill the vacancy after the retirement of Type 23 frigates, but a serious decline in combat effectiveness is inevitable, and the operational shortcomings are prominent, and it is likely that more ships will "lie down" in the port.
In this way, surface combat ships, the British Navy was embarrassed to appear for posing. In 2021, the British Navy sent the "Queen Elizabeth" aircraft carrier strike group to the western Pacific to carry out the so-called "global navigation operation".
The announcement of the return of the British Navy to the western Pacific is nothing more than adding to the chaos and will not play any role. On the way back to China, the British aircraft carrier was escorted out of the South China Sea by a Chinese submarine on its way back to its home country. 2025 is the second time that the British aircraft carrier strike group has appeared in the western Pacific after 2021, and if you want to contain China, you must also weigh the next weight.
Compared with the decline in the overall combat power of the British Navy, the combat ships are obscene, the surface ships of the Chinese Navy have shown a rapid increase, the British aircraft carrier appeared in the western Pacific for the first time, China is equipped with 2 aircraft carriers, and the second time it appeared in the western Pacific, China is equipped with 3 aircraft carriers, if the Fujian ship meets the British aircraft carrier, I am afraid that Britain will have no place to be ashamed.
The appearance of the British aircraft carrier strike group in the western Pacific in 2021 is also pieced together by the United States, Britain and the Netherlands, and the British Navy will be able to carry out ocean-going missions, all of which are used to escort aircraft carriers. Nowadays, the British Navy uses ships and guns to deter them, and after being taught a lesson by the Chinese Navy, they can wake up, and China is no longer the sleeping lion it once was.