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"Just asking guys have they named them yet? (The Carriers in progress)"
Queen Elizabeth
Prince of Wales
"(One of three navies with nuclear carrier)"
Actually only the USN and France. Russia had planned one but it was never built.
The Russian Kuznetsov is conventionally powered with 8 turbo -pressurized boilers feeding four sets of geared steam turbines.
As for rankings:
Much depends on capabilities/attributes/platforms you consider the most important ie:
Carriers
Submarines
SSBN
SSN
SSK
Should you include SSBN's when ranking navies? Or should they more rightly be considerd as Strtegic Assets only?
Not only capabilities should be considered but #s. Or should they? What weight do you give each consideration?
Example:
The UK is drawing down to from 11 to 8 SSNs but Japan has 18 plus 4 (reduced to a training role but still combat capable) SSKs.
Which is better?
For what role? ie defensive/offensive
Surface Combatants
CG(N)
CG
DDG
DD
FFG
FF
FFL(about 1220 tons fl to 2000fl)
Again not only capabilities should be considered but #s also. Or should they? What weight do you give each consideration?
Examples:
Russia's Fleet has approx 30 ships over 3000 tons fl as does and China or soon will have. India has about the same # but eight are smaller at 1400 tons fl.
Plus China has forty something FF/FFL between 1700 and 2400 tons fl.
Some of the Russian ships are not fully operational. Some are overage and due for retirement. Capabilities vary greatly.
China also has some overage ships and widely varying capabilities as does India.
I grouped the above together also because they share many common systems.
Japan has twice as many(over 50 to 26) surface combatants as the UK with the majority as capable or more capable than the Royal Navy ships.
France lags badly compared to both in capabilities at the moment and about the same in #s as the UK but about a third of those ships(A-69 class) are only 1250-1330 tons fl. Plus the five La Fayettes have no sonar??
Turkey and Taiwan have similar #s of large surface combatants as the UK and France. But also lag a bit as regards capabilities. They also have overage Knox class frigates in service four for Turkey and eight for Taiwan. Turkey has included six ex-French A- 69 ships. Taiwan has four ex -Kidd class class DDG's coming into service shortly. Both have OHP FFG ships eight each. Taiwan has six greatly improved (including sonar) French-designed La Fayette FF's and Turkey eight MEKO 200 variants.
Others nations to consider with 8-16 large surface combatants. The first six have 3 to 6 new state-of-the art AAW DDG/FFG type ships either built, building or planned.:
Spain
Italy plus 8 FFL
Germany
Netherlands
S. Korea plus 33 FFL
Austrailia
Canada
Brazil
Chile
Greece
Other important considerations when ranking navies:
Do they have the capability to operate world-wide?
Defensive/offensive capabilities and what weight do you give each.
Fleet replenishment ships important for sustained at-sea operations. They are also important for credible world-wide operational prescence.
Amphibious ships
Mine warfare ships
C4SI capabilities
Airborne & Space assets.
Training
Maintenance
Op Tempo
Modernization programs for existing ships
New Construction programs
Indigenous shipyards and systems design/manufacturing
Naval history of a particular navy
Just my thoughts.
As hard as I try to be objective some amount of subjectivity creeps in.
Then getting complete and accurate info on the Russian and Chinese navies is difficult at best.
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