Posted on 03/27/2014 4:44:05 PM PDT by Smartisan
In exactly 100 days, the Royal Navy’s biggest ever warship will be named by the Queen, who will smash a bottle of champagne on the 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier’s bow and name the vessel after herself. The ceremony will mark 16 years of work on the £6.2bn project which now employs 10,000 people at 100 firms working in every region of the country. When the HMS Queen Elizabeth becomes operational in 2020, she will deliver a radical change in the Navy’s capabilities, with her 4.5 acres of flight deck and 40 F35B joint strike fighters able to deliver bombs with pinpoint accuracy hundreds of miles away.
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Please do help with pics. I’ve never figured out how to do them. Also, not news per se but more of a milestone countdown.
22 years to build an aircraft carrier?!!
It will be obsolete before it ever launches a fighter.
This one's a computer-generated image.
I can't see the use of spoiling a perfectly good ship by putting aeroplanes on it. (Walks off, muttering)
She’s a wee bit bigger than HMS Victory isn’t she. She sails a little closer to the wind, too I expect.
Are there sharia sinks to wash thier feet? a prayer room with rugs?
POWER LAID BARE: INSIDE THE HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH - THE NAVY'S LARGEST EVER WARSHIP
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2589540/Unveiled-Massive-65-000-tonne-Royal-Navy-warship-HMS-Queen-Elizabeth-long-TWENTY-EIGHT-London-buses-carry-2-300-crew.html
Thanks Bill.
Slightly fantasy fleet sort of pic (or not as the case may be) what with the T42 in the background and the 19 F35’s on the deck.
Qe’s will only be 12 JF’s up as standard, plus associated helo’s.
Catapult?
Now I suppose that they have to find a command structure with the testicles to use it.
Always been unsure of the perspective in this one.
By the way, for anyone who’s interested. Just to the right of a spinnaker tower is a brilliant restaurant/bar. Great seafood.
16 years to build a carrier?
And you can sink it in 15 minutes
They'll still be waiting for the F35s.
I can’t find the power system, is it nuclear?
Sans catapult
Sixteen years of work. Planning on these things starts years before the first steel is cut. The USS Gerald Ford will be seven years in construction and testing, at least three or four years of planning and design before that.
Nope....VSTOL type deck and acft
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