The Royal Navy has been reduced to a very small husk of its former self.
The new Tyrpe 45 destroyers are nice...but they are building ony 6 of them total and they are lacking several critical combat systems to allow them to fulfill their multi-role requirements. Great AAW, but lacking in ASW and anti-surface.
The two new carriers are going to be great...but they have already retired all of their HArriers, and they may well not have any JSF ready when the carriers come out so may be reduced to being helo carriers until they can embark an airwing.
They are showing the path we will tread if we do not get the spending (particularly social spending and foreign aid) under control and balance our budget so we can maintain adequate defense posture.
The navy of the Japanese Defense Force now has more ships than the Royal Navy.