Britain's largest warship HMS Queen Elizabeth nears completion

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/10723164/Britains-largest-warship-nears-completion.html ^

[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.

[Smartisan]

Lead items go back that far, not the functional ‘build’ of the carrier.

[Smartisan]

Yup. I think the ‘hope’ is maybe 12 or so by 2020. Who knows.

[Smartisan]

Conventional

[ClearCase_guy]

Yup. That's why being prepared is so important -- you can't decide to "arm up" very successfully after the shooting starts.

Two important US weapons from WWII were the P-51 Mustang and the B-29 (dropped the A-bomb) -- both of these were begun in 1938, right around the time of the Munich pact and "Peace in our Time". Somebody on our side was paying attention and knew that trouble was coming.

My big worry about Obama is that he is cutting Defense at a time when anyone can see that the world is heading for trouble. We are not preparing -- which means are have already decided not to have a big role in the future.

[ken5050]

Still can’t get used to the twin islands..

[Smartisan]

:)

Lets see how it looks in the water. Might all make sense in its medium.

[TWhiteBear]

The real question is what to name it.
The choices are ‘Tsar Vladimir’, or ‘Sword of the Prophet’.
Or maybe the ‘Too Little’, or the ‘Too Late’.
Britain is only a memory now.
TWB

[null and void]

Please do help with pics. I’ve never figured out how to do them.

1. Get the image's URL. In Firefox this is easy-peasy, right click on the original image and select "Copy Image Location"

2. Type in <img src= right click and select paste and close the HTML with a >

it should look something like:

<img src=http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/html/Years/2014/March/HMSQueenElizabethSlideshow/slides/boat1.jpg>

And post like this:

If you want to get a little fancy, control the size with a height=nnn command like so:

<img src=http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/html/Years/2014/March/HMSQueenElizabethSlideshow/slides/boat1.jpg height=300>

It looks like so:

Try it. It's fun!

[Smartisan]

Schooled. Thanks.

[Ditter]

uuuuuummm That looks hard, I’ll just ask my friend nully to do it. ;9)

[Smartisan]

I’m sure the names have been chosen.

HMS Queen Elizabeth

HMS Prince of Wales

Some pretty decent history with both of those.

My own tuppence would have been for HMS Indefatigable and HMS Indomitable.

[wxgesr]

http://nns.huntingtoningalls.com/employees/pub/watch/ford3D

3D build video of our newest CVN.

[Don Corleone]

and name the vessel after herself.

I gave her some credit for having class. Now...not so much!

[henkster]

HMS Warspite would also be appropriate.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The joke is that they planned on calling it the HMS Indefatigable, but they decided that it sounded too homophobic.

[RicocheT]

Obama’s DOD has five of our big carriers long term berthed side by side at Norfolk, VA. A great big Pearl Harbor style target. We only put three of our 11 carriers out to sea now, no wonder Iran, Russia & Red China are so aggressive.

[naturalman1975]

and name the vessel after herself.

She doesn't choose the name, but it's actually named after Queen Elizabeth I of England - if it was named after the current Queen, it would be HMS Queen Elizabeth II (previous examples of British ships show this - HMS King George V, and HMS King Edward VII, for example - the Regnal numbers are used.

[the scotsman]

The mustang was as much British as it was American.

[ClearCase_guy]