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Its not just about Carriers its also ocean going landing ships and escort vessels, the Russian navy has a single carrier that is true however the Russian navy has limited capability for keeping it on station for extended periods of time (beyond 3 months).

I guess our mediteranian deployment does not count then?

Right now as it stands the Royal navy could in practice field a single carrier / Amphibious group with escorts and keep them on station pretty much indefinitely anywhere in the world.

Did I miss something and did QEs go through IOC?

The Royal navy and also the French can sail to any part of the world and there are very few countries ports not open to them if they needed to use a port, secondly the RFA comprises of enough auxiliaries (Stores and Oilers) to provide Replenishment at sea on a constant basis.

I mean the same applies to Russian Navy, if anything we have more tankers than RN does (with auxilaries), no?

Now add to that NATO and allied ships could also provide logistical support as does our maintained over seas bases Diago Garcia, Bahrain, Carribbean, Falklands to name a few.

This would make other NATO navies global ones as well.

The Russian navy simply does not have the over seas connections nor the ports open to them they also lack many auxiliaries to support a prolonged over seas deployment thus giving them category 3 in the ranking as a Green water navy.

Makes me wonder if this classification is artificial.

By the way, how is power projection counted? I mean the only land strike platforms RN has are the 6 Astute SSNs, which isn't much.