What does a naval blockade cost?

Have also announced suspending funds to the UN agency
Suspending is the important word. Maybe assume this will end once the enquiry ends. However remember that geopolitics is a rather strange and convoluted world.
 
It would be illegal to continue funding them if there were known links to proscribed terrorist organisations. Individuals processing the payments would be committing an offence.
 
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The new aircraft carrier was in the habit of breaking down or leaking every time it got past the Isle of Wight.

"One of the UK’s two state-of-the-art aircraft carriers will not take part in the largest Nato exercise in Europe since the cold war after last-minute checks identified a problem with its propeller.

The Royal Navy said HMS Queen Elizabeth, which had been due to sail on Sunday evening, would be replaced by its sister ship, the HMS Prince of Wales, in the mission on Norway’s Arctic coast.

In a message posted on social media platform X, it said routine checks before sailing found an issue with a coupling on the starboard propeller shaft of the flagship, which had been set to be the naval centrepiece of Nato exercise Steadfast Defender 2024.

HMS Prince of Wales would set sail instead “as soon as possible”, the Royal Navy added."

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"The flagship is expected to be escorted by at least one British frigate. But after years of budget cuts the once-powerful Royal Navy will need its allies to provide many of the additional vessels needed to form a carrier strike group — in particular a key logistics ship.

In one of the latest signs of Britain’s struggles to remain a top-tier military power, the 34-year-old RFA Fort Victoria, which is the last so-called solid support ship left in the fleet, remains laid up for repairs, despite a recent refit.

The failure to ensure that the UK’s two, multibillion pound carriers had this logistics support was symbolic of the Royal Navy’s threadbare state, serving and former officers and military analysts said.

“There is a dissonance between the UK’s military ambitions and its capabilities,” Sir Richard Barrons, former head of Britain’s armed forces, said. “The risk is that we get drawn into a conflict and can’t sustain our presence, and this exposes a strategic weakness.”

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Fret not for the stock of the Royal Navy while the quality of our Senior Service remains undaunted...

 
W.H. Smith, founder of the books and stationery business, a Conservative who rose to be First Lord of the Admiralty despite never having been in the navy, was the model of the "Scientific" Ruler of the Queens Navee.

Political chicanery is nothing new.
 
W.H. Smith, founder of the books and stationery business, a Conservative who rose to be First Lord of the Admiralty despite never having been in the navy, was the model of the "Scientific" Ruler of the Queens Navee.

Political chicanery is nothing new.
A bit like an anonymous person who won’t say what they do for a living or what part of the country they live in, thinking they are the First Lord of a DIY forum.

Forum trolling is nothing new.
 
The carrier POW will be at a far lower level of operational notice than the QE so I would not expect her to be joining the NATO exercise anytime soon.
 
We’re the French involved in any engineering on these air craft carriers ??? ;)
The European Navies have, to date, three aircraft carriers, the British HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Walles and the French Charles de Gaulle , the only ship equipped with catapults, arresting strands and nuclear propulsion on the old continent.10 Oct 2023
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Added to this are three aircraft carriers, the Italian Cavour and Trieste , as well as the Spanish Juan Carlos I. Like the British ships, these do not have catapults or arresting lines, and can therefore only use helicopters or Harrier or short or vertical takeoff fighters.

 
For Transam ;)
Number of aircraft in the Royal Air Force of the UK 2023, by type. As of 2023, the United Kingdom had 564 fixed-wing aircraft in the Royal Air Force and other branches of it's armed forces, the most numerous of which was the UK's main fighter jet, the Eurofighter Typhoon, of which there were 137.8 Dec 2023
 
So what we are saying is the French are not involved in the manufacture of any parts on the carriers ?

Thought they may have been involved in these parts that are leaking ?? :giggle:
 
We will be flying bolognaise Toyota's.
Britain will work to develop next-generation fighter jets with Italy and Japan, Rishi Sunak has announced.
The prime minister said the defence partnership will ensure the UK and allies are “outpacing and outmanoeuvring those who seek to do us harm”.
Downing Street aims for the jets, called Tempest in the UK, to take to the skies by 2035 and serve as a successor to the Typhoon.
 
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