HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier arrives in Portsmouth
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Consider the billions that the Royal Navy blows to maintain an anachronistic and redundant fleet of Trident ICBM carrying submarines.
Where did you get the idea that it can't accommodate aircraft? It had aircraft on it as it entered Portsmouth Harbour. Why would the Royal Navy operate aircraft carriers with no aircraft?
Well as long as Her Majesty's credit card isn't yet maxed out, I guess it would make sense to buy aircraft to boot.
You guys are as bad as Trudeau, spending like drunken sailors you lot.
When is was a drunken sailor, (P)Trudeau was spending sweet f-all on the Navy.
Not on the Navy, he didn't and nor did his successors. We just paid off the last ships launched during the Trudeau years. They lasted that long held together by ticky tape, chewing gum and the skill and fortitude of their crews.
Oh no. Definitely not. Unlike Canada, Britain is one of the few members to meet NATO requirements to spend at least 2% of GDP on defence.
Part of the downside of these hugely expensive imperial status symbols is their vulnerability. Even with the defensive flotilla that usually surrounds them, one well guided and relatively cheap cruise missile could take it out in a shooting war.
It's been done. Several times over.
It was very difficult to sink Dreadnoughts, too before Jutland.
Well, warships fight wars, and therefore put themselves in danger of being sunk. That's the normal way of things.
Britain lost several aircraft carriers in World War II - including HMS Hermes, the world's first aircraft carrier - yet these were very small compared to the behemoths of today. Modern aircraft carriers are almost impossible to sink.
Entering Portsmouth Harbour
With destroyer HMS Diamond
Whereas how much dough have we blown on subs that can't leave the harbour, never mind fire
a floating turd ?
Glass houses.