As Peter Hitchens has pointed out, there are no aircraft for this big new carrier because the UK isn’t spending enough money to adequately support its military needs.
It will be no laughing matter if a real shooting war breaks out for the armed forces in the UK.
They are not nearly as ready as they were for the war in the Falklands in 1982.
> As Peter Hitchens has pointed out, there are no aircraft for this big new carrier because the UK isn’t spending enough money to adequately support its military needs. <
Sort of like the UK rolling out a new battleship in 1910 with no shells for the cannon. On second thought, it’s not like that at all. The UK had many battleships back in 1910. Just one with no shells would be no big deal.
But the HMS Queen Elizabeth is it. That’s all the UK has.
And the Argies are even less ready and less capable for another Falklands invasion. They don’t have any jets in their air force!
Floating Maginot Line: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/maginot-line
You can’t invest in a in a ship like this unless you’re investing in a museum for the British Navy 10 years after this is launched in 2020.
Give me 10 Destroyers that will be laser ready 2022 instead.
Well, since it was only built to give money to the Scottish shipbuilders and the Glasgow economy to help defeat the “Scottish Independence” vote, why would you need planes for it?