The Royal Navy has remained one of the world's most capable navies, however, and currently operates a large fleet of modern ships.

They have a formidable, capable navy.

Since 1940s, the term "strike fighter" was occasionally used in the navies to refer to fighter aircraft capable of performing air-to-surface strikes, such as the Westland Wyvern and Blackburn Firebrand.

HMS Ark Royal, the only ship in the navy currently capable of launching jets at sea, will be scrapped early along with its fleet of Harrier aircraft.

These acts, championed by Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Secretary of State for the Navy, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, committed Germany to building up a navy capable of competing with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.

Using business school terms, the review talks about the need to develop America's "core competence" in several key areas: long-range missiles, space operations, a navy capable of operating on the high seas, and transport planes to move men and material in a crisis.

The British Empire faced worldwide defense commitments, but lacked both the industrial infrastructure and financial resources to build up a navy capable of being simultaneously strong in both Far Eastern and European waters.

There would be few national navies capable of mounting a successful operation along those lines.

The John Ericsson-class ironclads were designed to meet the need of the Swedish and Norwegian navies for small, shallow-draft armored ships capable of defending their coastal waters.