Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carrier

Nice ships you lucky english people, everything we got new in the next time is an "advanced" frigate type.

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Che.

 

Don't worry about it, it will undoubtedly fall foul of a far more destructive force: the British Civil Service :-?

 

yep, I have to say that as a Brit I see these things as being a huge waste of vast sums of money.

Given the fact that we are struggling to design a plane on budget and schedule I have little faith that these will see service in my lifetime.

FNG

 

65.000 tons, it seems like the displacement record of Yamato (72.000 tons) will remain for a couple years

 

Surely the Nimitz class is heavier -- about 100,000 tons IIRC

 

damm, your right. Seems the record is broken quite a while ago.
Ford Class is planned for 100.000 but will no doubt have more weight when finished and fully loaded.

 

its alot cheaper to make a image then the real thing, less money on navy more money on army/marines.

 

What worries me is that somewhere along the line it will involve large cutbacks elsewhere as that't the way Britain usually does things.

 

Our Marines are part of our Navy.

BRITISH, the Royal Navy is BRITISH, not English, England is only part of Great Britain.

 

I dont see that big reason to upgrades navy, whats so wrong with the royal navy right now? I dont see how the goverment can spend a billions some dollars on a new aircraft carrier,submarine, and destroyer but nothing on getting every member army/marines good body armor.

The Marines are part of the Navy over here as well, I never really considered them the same.

 

For now it is. I reckon the second carrier will go to the Scottish Navy.

Is this the same type of carrier the Frenchies are getting by the way? I got the impression that this was an Anglo-French co-operation?

 

IIRC: The new French aircraft carrier will look like the Queen Elizabeth but a little smaller in lenght. Also, the French will not use jets that can take of virticly so they have a fully flat deck and the catapult is placed in an angle like the Nimitz class
here's the wikipage whit additional info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_French_aircraft_carrier

 

and yet they couldn't find 30 million for the police!

Our Labour government are a bunch of hypacritical, pocket lining, corrupt wasters.

FNG

 

Wikipedia says the French carrier is a development of the same design as the British class, and they seem to have a lot in common except for the flight deck. Same displacement, same lenght by 1 meter ( which might be the different flight decks ) and the same island arrangement.

 

Yes, but the French are using the Catobar system and the British don't. However, the british keep it as a possibility for the future.

Also, take a look at the flightdecks above the bow. The french have a flat deck while the british have a up going deck. just one of te small differences. For the rest the ships are identical since they are made by the same corperation

 

I do wonder why the RN carrier has two island structures, though. Interesting choice of name for her, too.

 

I have no idea. Because it looks funny?

 

RN ships have always traditionally been female - now they even look like it - lying down, staring skyward is always an interesting pose too.

:-?

 

How many of those dinky little Joint Strake Fighters do you think could be accommodated compared to F14s for example ?

 

No idea, but since there's little or no chance of the RN getting any Tomcats, it's kind of a moot point. Personally, I'd equip her with Super Hornets or keep the Sea Harriers, perhaps in an upgraded variant, rather than use the JSF.