Britannia Rules The Waves: Inside Brand New Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth That Boasts 33-Ton Propellers Twice The Size Of A Double Decker Bus And A Four Acre Deck -- Daily Mail
* HMS Queen Elizabeth is Britain's biggest engineering project
* Two 33-ton propellers are twice the height of a double decker bus
* The carrier will finally take to the water next month when the Queen visits
Standing on the bridge of the mighty HMS Queen Elizabeth, it is the sheer scale of the largest warship in Royal Navy history that hits you.
This hi-tech batcave commands a view that runs for miles from Rosyth, Fife, beyond the seemingly endless flight deck of our newest aircraft carrier and taking in the Forth Bridges and a hazy Edinburgh city centre to the east to the Grangemouth refinery and the Ochils in the west.
And yet, given that this is Britain’s biggest engineering project, one has to fight hard not to laugh out loud at the comical size of the ship’s tiny steering wheel.
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My Comment: No planes (yet .... maybe), no escort ships, no money for operations .... but it is a nice aircraft carrier.
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Also no carrier Q'd pilots.
No weapons to put on any planes if they DID get them.
No sailors to man it (when you have 2x as many Admirals as you have SHIPS your navy is in trouble).
No national will to use it under any circumstances whatsoever.
Other than that, yeah. A nice aircraft carrier. I'm sure submarine captains throughout Asia and the Middle East and South America are thinking that as well.
Orion
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