Britain’s Aircraft Carrier May Need French Escort
9th March 2026
A British aircraft carrier may need to be escorted by a French warship if it is deployed to the Middle East.
HMS Prince of Wales has been placed on advanced readiness, with the crew told it must be ready to sail with five days’ notice.
However, with most of the Royal Navy’s major warships unavailable or undergoing maintenance, protection would probably need to be provided by allies such as France, the US and other European countries.
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The Royal Navy has six destroyers, but only HMS Dragon is known to be ready for action and is due to sail to the eastern Mediterranean very soon to protect the British sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus.
Of the fleet’s seven frigates, only HMS Somerset and HMS St Albans are understood to be available. The rest are undergoing maintenance or struggling with defects.
Britain has turned into a Turd World country, both in its population and in its capabilities.