Half of British fleet at ‘high readiness or above’
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/half-of-british-fleet-at-high-readiness-or-above/
Posted by MGC91
Half of British fleet at ‘high readiness or above’
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/half-of-british-fleet-at-high-readiness-or-above/
Posted by MGC91
5 Comments
For context regarding this, there is no navy in the world that can have all its warships available 100% of the time.
Warships are some of the most complex machines built and have numerous systems that need regular maintenance.
The general rule of thumb is that to deploy one warship deployed, you need to have three in total. One deployed, one returning from/in maintenance/refit and one coming out of refit and working up to be operational.
Even when a warship is operational, it will have routine maintenance periods that are carefully planned in with the operating schedule, however clearly unplanned defects can impact this.
I’d worry more about how quickly we could ramp up readiness should that be needed, half being in that state is already pretty good Navy wise.
Do we have the munitions to give them all full loadouts?
Do we have the ability to surge the rest of the fleet if needed? Especially the Type 45s and our submarine fleet
I’d be more worried that we don’t have the necessary sailors – either numerically or those with the necessary specific skill set – to crew them…
So basically, half of all British naval vessels are at above average readiness?