I use a variety of sources for open source including the USNI and both Canadian and UK government websites.

Are you meaning something like this ?

http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedP..._Version_3.pdf

As for Omit i have reasons to not discuss this area il just say too risky for me and dont wish to be embroiled in anything.

Not quite. What Shishkin does for the Russian Navy is to take such goverment sources, add in media reports and so on, then compile them to make a table every month or so as to what the state of the ships are (in the above example he colour codes them, yellow = repairs and modernisation, green = available and so on). You can see an example of the table for this month previously in this thread.

I guess the closest equivalent I know of would be the "where are the carriers?" project for the USN, found here: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm


So I was wondering if such a handy (compilation) source is available for the RN. This would help to see the real state of the readiness so to speak.

only thing i have used is this:

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-an...ity/operations

There is a list that is published on one of the sites i think its save the royal navy that give you a ship by ship status but i cant right now remember the link.

The USNI publishes the carriers positions