Inside Britain's biggest-ever aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth

[KAL-EL]

Go Britain

 

[airmarshal]

Just these two anymore will cost us too much in maintenance, servicing etc. and our public will start crying about how its a waste of money as 'we face no real threat', or the usuual cries of : we could have spent that money on welfare or helping refugees in Syria. Etc.

I agree that we should have built at least one more, since having three carriers is the minimum amount required to have at least one in active service/action at all times.
Think we should have at least built a third smaller carrier in the class of our former invincible carriers. However, our leaders seem to have decided otherwise.

Britain being an island nation needs at least two more. Although I m no expert on military strategy

If you compare, its size is still fraction of USS Nimitz class carrier.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Britain being an island nation needs at least two more. Although I m no expert on military strategy

If you compare, its size is still fraction of USS Nimitz class carrier.

Lool The Nimitz is something else bro.HOW can you compete with these monsters?

Simply no challenger.......

Aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS Enterprise (CVN 65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia Picture: REUTERS/U.S. Navy/MC2 Ernest R. Scott


SEA KINGS INDEED .....

 

[Moon]

Two small corrections :

The QE class was named for Elizabeth I.

There will not be 11 carriers in the Ford-class.
At present the number aimed for is 10 and even
that is not yet definitive. Chances are good that
a new design may compete for that total number.

Nice vids in any case and great day to all, Tay.

Well, as the saying goes.
"Two birds with one stone". That's literally what's happening in naming the carrier.

 

[Rashid Mahmood]

 

[Maler]

Why UK is not using catapults or EMALs on their carriers???

 

[Stuttgart001]

No way. Without catapult, Queuen Elizaba can not deploy large AWACs and EW airplane, plus the efficiency of F-35B is less than F-35C.
A Nimiz CBG could knock down any Queuen Elizaba or its kind before the latter could find it.
A aircraft carrier with catapults is another kind of carrier compared to that without catapults.

And those two combined will have the same operational capabilities as one of these beasts:

Look at all that sweet *ss!!

We have ten.

Soon to be replaced by 11 of these:

And our Gator navy to go along with them:

It's a really distant second.

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This post was put into perspective by 'Merica, f*ck yeah!!

 

[MMM-E]

Royal Navy rules in Europe