Capacities and ranking of EU main navies (plus Britain)

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  1. Curious why the Netherlands isn’t purple. Also, iirc, the total tonnage (only counting the warships and larger support vessels – excluding all the smaller vessels) is about 140k.

    Or am I just missing something/misunderstanding the map and/or am I just plainly wrong?

    Edit: did a quick google and found this; so we’re not a blue water navy… [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-water_navy#The_Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-water_navy#The_Netherlands). But ‘green water navy’ is seemingly not ‘regional’ and Spain is also listed as a ‘green water navy’. Now I’m confused even more.

  2. That’s a terrible take lol. UK and France are the only blue water navies in Europe.

    Italy, Spain and the Dutch are solid green water navies and shouldn’t be lumped in with eg Germany.

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