Who has the strongest Navy?

Question

With out nukes, (Aircraft Carriers, subs, B. ships ETC.)

Answer 1

No navy comes close to the US Navy.

Right now, today, the British Royal Navy has exactly 44 ships. There's a plan to further reduce it to 26 ships. You've got to wonder where some of these people get their information.

THE STRANGE DEATH OF THE ROYAL NAVY

BRITS WILL NOW RELY ON EUROPEANS FOR THEIR DEFENSE

By ARTHUR HERMAN

January 14, 2007 -- A 400-YEAR epoch of world history is about to draw to a close. If Britain's current Labor government has its way, Britain's Royal Navy will mothball at least 13, and perhaps as many as 19, of its remaining 44 ships, or nearly half its effective fleet.

With one bureaucratic stroke, the Ministry of Defense will end a naval tradition reaching back to Sir Francis Drake - reducing the Royal Navy, which 40 years ago was still the second-largest fleet in the world, to the size of navies of countries like Indonesia and Turkey.

This decision, of course, has to be set against the background of Britain's decades-long decline as a world power. But it also reflects a struggle for the soul of Great Britain that has been going since World War II: Is Britain part of an English-speaking, Atlantic-based strategic alliance that includes the United States and Canada? Or is it part of Europe as envisioned by technocrats in Paris, Brussels and Berlin?

NEXT month's final decision on whether to scrap the Royal Navy may supply us with the answer. Because the Blair government's drastic plans include more than taking existing ships out of commission. The service's entire future as a blue-water navy (that is, a navy capable of operations outside Britain's own waters) may be forfeit.

According to The Daily Telegraph, plans for two new fleet carriers of the kind vital for fighting today's War on Terror and projecting power overseas - and for which $6.9 billion had already been set aside - will also be scrapped. Two new destroyers, which were supposed to replace at least some of the retired ships, are also out of the picture. The Telegraph even reports (Jan. 8) that all officer promotions in the navy are to be suspended for the next five years.

Read the rest...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01142007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_strange_death_of_the_royal_navy_opedcolumnists_arthur_herman.htm

Answer 2

The USA has the strongest Navy in the world. With a Carrier fleet of 12, Cruisers, Destroyers, attack subs, frigiates and a slew of other ships, no nation comes close in terms of power.

We have currently about 280 ships in active service between both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets.

12 Carriers
22 Cruisers
80 destroyers
73 subs

The ships in the Navy are always being upgraded. New technology and weapons are being installed. One of the best weapons is the Aegis Radar system, which allows one ship to see what every other ship in its group sees. Helps expand visibilty by hundreds of miles.

While many nations like China are trying to build a massive ans strong navy no nation can project global power like the USA can.

Answer 3

If you were to take all that away you would not have much of a Navy at all, let alone a powerful one. But hands down, the U.S. Navy.

Answer 4

The good ole US of A.

They unlike the french have aircraft carriers that planes can land on.

Answer 5

A strange question! How can you take away the things you listed when try to evaluate a country's navy?

Answer 6

United States NAVY!! USA!!

Answer 7

We do (US), but china is getting close. The royal navy is pretty massive also. Superior Naval/Air power for the win!

Answer 8

With out nukes and without A/C subs Battleships? what leaves? I would say serria leone.........they have a canoe i think with a spear....

Answer 9

I would say the United States followed very closely by the UK, I think UK may even have a stronger navy, since theres has always been revered.

Answer 10

England is know for the strongest navy