Commodore (rank) lieutenant-colonel or wing commander in other air forces. Commodore is a rank in the Royal Netherlands Air Force. It is a one-star rank and has essentially the same rank insignia as the British air commodore. Many air forces use the rank of air commodore. This rank was first used by the Royal Air Force and is now used in many countries such as Australia, Bangladesh, Greece, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Thailand and Zimbabwe. It is the equivalent rank to the navy rank of "commodore", and the army ranks of brigadier and brigadier general. The German air force used the
Future of the Royal Navy although many programmes were reduced in scale. This has led to the replacement of smaller and more numerous units with fewer, but larger, units. The main examples of this are the replacement of twelve Type 42 destroyers with six Type 45s and the replacement of the three 20,000 tonne s with two 70,600 tonne "Queen Elizabeth"-class aircraft carriers. There are, as of November 2018, 13 Royal Navy ships and submarines under construction (A further 5 planned): Four s (boats 4-7), one "Dreadnought"-class ballistic missile submarine (boat 1 of 4), one "Queen Elizabeth"-class aircraft carrier (ship 2 of 2), one Type