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23/08/2010
Navy Custs "Treaten Security"
Report by Kylie Harrison Daily Express
The Royal Navy is dangerously weak and the UK’s national security will be at risk unless more funding is secured, an independent think tank claims.
RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute, says years of underfunding, coupled with the current financial climate, will leave the Navy’s fleet ageing, weakened and inadequate for vital tasks.
An article in the latest RUSI Journal warns that unless more money is urgently pumped into the Navy, the UK will be unable to safeguard trade routes from pirates, terrorists or non-friendly governments.
Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham and Professor Gwyn Prins, who wrote the article, maintain that the UK needs to build at least 10 new ships in the next decade.
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