THE FUTURE CARRIER (CVF) -HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH - HMS PRINCE OF WALES
Can Britain Afford Not To Build £5bn Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers? -- The Telegraph
Two aircraft carriers weighing in at 65,000 tonnes each may not be the obvious stuff of romance, but HMS Queen Elizabeth and her partner HMS Prince of Wales have become the will-they-won't-they couple of the defence world.
Every time the £35bn cost overrun at the Ministry of Defence is mentioned, the question of whether to scrap or build the £5bn carriers follows. Can the country afford two such vessels? Even if they are both built, there is a persistent rumour the second could be sold to India. Or that one ship will have to share the other's complement of fighter planes and helicopters, an ignominious fate for an aircraft carrier. Expectations of a happy ending for the pair are not strong.
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My Comment: With 10,000 jobs at stake, this is becoming to look more like a jobs program than a defense project with a strategic/national security objective.
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