ROYAL NAVY CVF AIRCRAFT CARRIER

I have read that Prince of Wales will now be an amphibious commando ship and only fly helicopters. When Queen Elizabeth goes into refit the Royal Navy will have no JSF carrier.

The design of the Queen Elizabeth class is adaptable; my money is the Prince of Wales will be fitted with a ski jump and through progressive refits will become a strike carrier. Only once they are built will their true value be really seen.

Lets be honest here; the Queen Elizabeth class carriers here are the mutts nuts and as always will, like Great Britain, punch way above her weight.

The new carriers look superb!!
But the ski jump might be eliminated.

@TowerHamletsNeil. Then before the second ones built Labour or Lib/Dem's could be back in to change it again...wtf!
Next could be Rafael's ordered from the French to make up the plane numbers ha ha!!

are the planes - x-35's, if so where did they come from? they look like f-22's

yea 6 will be built. one 45 is better than all other 42 in service

The Type 45s are armed with nothing but 4.5inch gun atm, missiles don't work :/

In the mid 1960's politicians scrapped plans to build the last force projection fleet - CVA 01. The result was Argentina invaded the Falklands and too much blood (and money) was shed, because they believed we would/could not defend those who asked for our help.
The same scenario now rises. In these times big projects like CVA are easy to chop.
Sadly mankind will always fight, it is in our nature.
"Walk softly but carry a big stick" - we need CVA.
..and call one of em' ARK ROYAL

LOL...Tories increasing the defence budget or even maintaining it. They have got to slash public spending (whichever party is elected) as we are are in debt to the hilt. Defence spending cuts will be very hard to ignore when compared to the HNS and education which are planning to be cut back severly. I think new defence equipment will still come through, but things like selling off some RAF bases, cutting army challenger 2 and army lynx helis numbers, etc,etc will try to be done on the quiet.