She is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy.

Its a shame we have to rob personnel from other ships to crew her though....................I would like to bet that either the QE or the POW gets sold off before it ever sees service.
 
sailorman said:
Yes agreed but the Hood didnt have any airplanes
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Actually she did, she had a Fairey seaplane mounted on the stern but it was removed by 1932 after a trial year or so. I have family connection with the Hood in that my Grandfather was one of many Foreman at John Brown where she was built. I've actually handled the yards plans for her which are now stored in the University of Glasgow industrial archives.
 
JumbleDuck said:
Wasn't the idea at one time that the QE would never have planes, and that she'd be sold off when the PoW, with planes, became available?
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I heard Admiral West being interviewed on the Beeb this morning and, when asked what the QE was for, the first reason he gave was "aid to the civil power", a term which, in my RN days, meant shooting civilians but which he defined it as helping with disaster relief. (Although how it will help alleviate the effects of Brexit, I'm not quite sure). :D)
 
capnsensible said:
In some people's heads, possibly......
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In the heads of the people who write the 2010 "Strategic Defence and Security Review". That's when it was decided to go for the F35-C carrier version of Lightning II, but equip only the Prince of Wales with the necessary CATOBAR equipment. The Queen Elizabeth's fate was not formally decided then, but she would not have been able to operate any available fixed wing aircraft and so selling off looked likely.

However the costs of CATOBAR were so eye-watering that two years later the government decided to abandon it and buy the F35-B STOL variant instead, so the Queen Elizabeth got a reprieve. Now, of course, it's up to the Americans to produce some F35-Bs which actually work. The programme is a decade late and billions over cost, but they might yet do it, at which point the UK will, at a cost of around £20bn, be extremely well equipped to fight the Battle of Jutland. Hooray.
 
JumbleDuck said:
In the heads of the people who write the 2010 "Strategic Defence and Security Review". That's when it was decided to go for the F35-C carrier version of Lightning II, but equip only the Prince of Wales with the necessary CATOBAR equipment. The Queen Elizabeth's fate was not formally decided then, but she would not have been able to operate any available fixed wing aircraft and so selling off looked likely.

However the costs of CATOBAR were so eye-watering that two years later the government decided to abandon it and buy the F35-B STOL variant instead, so the Queen Elizabeth got a reprieve. Now, of course, it's up to the Americans to produce some F35-Bs which actually work. The programme is a decade late and billions over cost, but they might yet do it, at which point the UK will, at a cost of around £20bn, be extremely well equipped to fight the Battle of Jutland. Hooray.
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Exactly. So it didn't happen. Plus that's kinda old news. If such a thing exists. One could, for example, find out how long British pilots have been working in the US with their flight crews, how manyF35 aircraft Britain has, how pilots have been operating on aFrench aircraft carrier and watch the weekends display at the Paris Air Show.

Or rely on out of date and ill informed comment.

But that's normal! ;)
 
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