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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 ^
Posted on 03/27/2014 4:44:05 PM PDT by Smartisan
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03/27/2014 4:44:05 PM PDT
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Smartisan
To: Smartisan
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.
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:45:04 PM PDT
by
Smartisan
To: Smartisan
To: Smartisan
16 years under construction so far and 6 more to go before it is operational.
22 years to build an aircraft carrier?!!
It will be obsolete before it ever launches a fighter.
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:48:18 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Smartisan
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)
To: Smartisan
She’s a wee bit bigger than HMS Victory isn’t she. She sails a little closer to the wind, too I expect.
To: Billthedrill
Well, speaking as a former US Navy sailor... that's got to be the ugliest looking ship I ever did see.
And I saw some ugly ones, especially some of the Soviet vessels.
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:50:03 PM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: Billthedrill
Are there sharia sinks to wash thier feet? a prayer room with rugs?
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:53:18 PM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(Im missing a jumbo jet with 235 passengers has anyone seen it?)
To: Smartisan
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
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:54:34 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Billthedrill
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.
To: Smartisan
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:56:11 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Smartisan
Now I suppose that they have to find a command structure with the testicles to use it.
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:56:23 PM PDT
by
bkopto
(Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
To: Billthedrill
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.
To: Smartisan
16 years to build a carrier?
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:01:47 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
And you can sink it in 15 minutes
To: Smartisan
2020?
They'll still be waiting for the F35s.
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:12:11 PM PDT
by
Dartman
(CDN PM Stephen Harper may not be perfect, but we don't have to be ashamed or embarassed of him.)
To: Smartisan
I can’t find the power system, is it nuclear?
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:12:13 PM PDT
by
Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: headstamp 2
To: Pontiac
16 years under construction so far and 6 more to go before it is operational. 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.
To: headstamp 2
Nope....VSTOL type deck and acft
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:14:42 PM PDT
by
wxgesr
(Nada, zilch, zed)
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