The Royal Navy is deploying ships without all their weapons.
Two Royal Navy destroyers could not fire their missiles if they came under attack - because they have been removed to save cash.
Type 42s HMS Exeter and HMS Southampton have been working without their Sea Dart guided missile system since Christmas, it was revealed today.
To go with the cutbacks, at least half a dozen operating crew have been transferred to other ships.
The missiles, used to protect the destroyers and larger aircraft carriers against air attack, have been stored away even though HMS Exeter has sailed to the Mediterranean twice and joined a NATO-led operation in that time.
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I presume both NATO and the US were aware of these Potemkin “warships?”
I’ll say it again, we are reliving the 30’s all over. I hope the result is different this time around.
And this time the enemies don’t even need to build massive amounts of weaponry. They simply finance enviro groups, buy off politicians, and bankrupt us via oil prices.
At the end of history, no European need ever die in war again. That’s what Americans a for. To think, we used to have to pay the Huns. The Yanks will die for free…