Royal Navy Second Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales' Hull Completed

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It is not like BAE systems is the only UK defence company. See Chemring group,Cobham plc. And, also consider that not everything is inside one company. Brimstone is British-designed but made by MBDA, a specialist missile manufacturer owned jointly by BAE, France-based Airbus Group and Finmeccanica of Italy.


You don't. You'ld compare to Gerald R. Ford and successors. And not until QE gets catapults and F-35C, anyway

Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier
Intended for something like 75 sorties per day over the five-day period.

Tailored air group of up to 40 aircraft (max 50 full load)

• • F-35B Lightning II (max 36?)
    
  • Chinook
  • Apache AH64
  • Merlin HM2 and HC4
  • Wildcat AH1 and HMA2
  • Merlin Crowsnest AEW

Gerarld R. Ford class
The Ford class are intended to sustain 160 sorties per day for 30-plus days, with a surge capability of 270 sorties per day.

• Air group 75+. Ability to carry up to 90 aircraft, including:
  • Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet,
    
  • Boeing EA-18G Growler,
    
  • Grumman C-2 Greyhound,
  • Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye,
    
  • Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II,
  • Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopters, and
    
  • unmanned combat air vehicles such as the Northrop Grumman X-47B

sir the reason i call uk next to usa is due to their massive spending in defense and research , $600 vs 50 billions. usa is like batman while uk is like robin , both are great but batman is well BATMAN and they share the same relationship as well .