The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious sails from Portsmouth Jan. 21 to lead a 13-ship multi-national Task Group to the Indian Ocean. (UK MoD photo)
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious sails from Portsmouth Jan. 21 to lead a 13-ship multi-national Task Group to the Indian Ocean. (UK MoD photo)
There's a joke in there somewhere.
HMS Illustrious departed now returning due to a refer plant?
You have got to be friggen kidding me are their any machinist mates on board? Its got aircraft to bring in spare parts if not on board.
Once again, the crown embarrasses the west.
The Sun Always Sets on the British Empire.
I wonder if Britian is still planning on building its supercarrier...
I wonder why they couldnt fix the issue at sea, which would seem like good training...
It’s a cover story.
They’re picking up James to drop him off at Dr Zodiac’s Arctic base, and the meat fridge is the same size as an Aston Martin.
Reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw once along time ago when the British still built many brands of autos for export to the US:
Why do the British drink warm beer? Because they have Lucas refrigerators!
It is an aircraft carrier, they don’t have HVAC/refrigeration techs aboard?
What’s a few maggots in the meat? The British Navy ain’t what it used to be. ;-)
Hmmmm...couldn’t the Brits have simply airlifted a new unit or parts to fix the current one, rather than wasting all the money on fuel to return to port? This doesn’t make sense...
They don’t have people who can maintain all that?
Is this Scrapple?
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Uhhh...turning around an entire carrier group is less expensive than flying out a couple of engineers with some parts? Geez...it is a carrier....
This reminds me of the old TV commerical where the exec. officer tells the captain of an ocean liner that they’ve run out of Colombian coffee. Hard about!
Cover story. Some game’s afoot.
2500 sailors and bad meat is a recipe for a night show joke.
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost..
For want of the shoe, the horse was lost..
For want of the horse, the rider was lost..
For want of the rider, the battle was lost..
For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost..
And all for the want of a nail.
To call this thing an aircraft carrier is like calling donkey a horse.
“It wouldn’t be prudent for her to go off with the chance of the unit breaking down while she was in warmer climates”...Does he know Bush senior???
Without reading the article, I’m going to guess it was made by Lucas...
What do I win?