It's HMS You, Ma'am! The Queen declares Britain's biggest warship ready for duty

THE DAILY MAIL ^ | 7 December 2017 | LARISA BROWN

[sukhoi-30mki]

Getty Images cant be posted here (some Copyright issue).

[ExGeeEye]

Thanks

[ExGeeEye]

Do I note correctly the presence of four catapults?

[DesertRhino]

No airplanes, two islands, and rocking Windows XP on all the onboard computers.
Good to see British engineering prowess is still up to standards.

[DesertRhino]

Odd to design a freaking carrier around one and only one airframe.

[DesertRhino]

Nope, no catapults or arresting gear!

[deadrock]

That looks like a model of the Gerald Ford. Incredible photo.

[deadrock]

It certainly looks that way.

[Fiddlstix]

Okay. I contacted the mods to have it removed.

[Jemian]

I’m glad I saw it before the mods. Cute figures.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#19. As Mel Brooks used to say, “It’s great to be queen”.

[mikefive]

I wonder how long it’ll take until the brits mothball it to pay for more muslim invaders.

[Churchillspirit]

Great!

The Queen has a great sense of humour..hope she enjoyed it.

[Seruzawa]

Last I read about it the Brits won’t have any planes for it.

[Djl3668]

Does it have a prayer room for the Moozie?

[soycd]

Let’s hope they don’t have a crew of islam filth on it.

[jmacusa]

I’m surprised that had the money to even build it.

[prophetic]

"At a staggering 65,000 tons", gee compared to our 12 aircraft carriers at 100,000 tons I guess the British press don't get to use big numbers a lot.

"And with an operational range of 10,000 nautical miles" wow, so nobody over there has thought of using nuclear reactors?

Alas the twilight of the once might British Empire now reduced to playing with Lego blocks. Pray that the usa won't get to that but we got $20 trillion debt hanging over our heads and a lot of sin to repent for that can spell our demise.

[Charles Martel]

Is that HMS Victory to the right of the clock?

Yes, that's it - I visited there last December. Had a tour of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, too.

[Winniesboy]

Odd to design a freaking carrier around one and only one airframe

Not so odd when you remember that the Royal Navy's previous generation of carriers (the Invincible class) did exactly the same, and it turned out to be a highly successful partnership. Whether the F35 turns out to be as effective as the Harrier was remains to be seen, however.