They built their carrier but have no planes. And now American squadrons will be their air wing? Fine, but as long as that is the case, the ship must be under the command of a US navy officer.
Shameful for American jets to be the combat element of a British navy ship.
I think they may have been better off with 4 or 5 30,000 tone small carriers.
Been 40 years since Ark Royal decommissioned.
Britianstan (and France/Germany) Trashed the US on Iranian nuke deal and expect US military support? They have each other, make do with that.
This fiasco is part of our leaving the EU. The Carriers were supposed to be part of the EU forces, with probably French planes and pilots...It was all started by BLiar and carried on by that idiot Cameron...of course no-one dared tell the UK taxpayer, what the real plan is/was, as they would have gone rightly ape.
So now we have thankfully voted to leave, we end up with two Carriers, no planes and nowhere near enough escorts.....and the poor old top brass have to pretend that all is well.
As for acting with Allies....the only allies we can really trust are Canadians, Aussie’s and the US....that is if anyone will pick up the phone in the US after all our insults.
All our politicians should be keelhauled.
The RN is down to 19 ships????
The article also mentioned that USN destroyers and frigates may also form a portion of their surface screen as the RN is short in that area as well. First I heard of that!
Argentina will invade the Falklands again... : )