... when one looks at the state of the Royal Navy.
The Royal Navy’s only amphibious warship has been declared unsafe to put to sea. RFA Argus is unable to leave the Portsmouth Naval Base because maritime authorities have said the ship is unfit to sail. The inability of Argus, currently designated as the naval service’s sole amphibious warfare vessel, to put to sea means the Navy has no ships capable of delivering the Royal Marines en masse into war zones.
This is hapless Argus.
But apart from a decline of the UK as a whole, with Royal Navy being one of the symptoms, one still has to ask the question of the utility of such vessel for a country which struggles with deploying a single combat ready brigade. In comparison:
Translation: PETERSBURG, July 27 - RIA Novosti. Five Russian marine brigades will be transformed into divisions in the near future, two of them - already in 2025, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin addressed the participants of the July Storm operational exercises via video link on Sunday. "In the near future, five marine brigades will be transformed into divisions, two of them - already in 2025," the head of state said.
For those who still don't understand the scale--a division is the first formation, after brigade, which is OPERATIONAL-tactical formation, meaning it can conduct independent operations because of TOE. Five marines' divisions is essentially a marines army. But then again, Russia is not UK or any other European country, Russia dwarfs any of them in terms of economy and ability to maintain a massive force across all domains, from space down to underwater.
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