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| Tango01 | 26 Mar 2014 9:54 p.m. PST |
… need an app to stop getting lost. "Towering high above the river at Rosyth dockyard in Scotland, Britain's biggest-ever warship is in the final stages of construction. The £3.00 GBPbillion aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth is four acres of floating military might with the power to steam 500 miles a day to any war zone or disaster area. Yesterday the Daily Mirror was invited on board for an inside view of a vessel so vast that its builders and engineers need a special phone app to find their way around. Just over 100 days from now, on July 4, the Queen will give her own name to the Royal Navy's new flagship, to be followed 20 months later by an identical carrier called HMS Prince of Wales…"
Full article and video here.
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Armand |
| Zargon | 27 Mar 2014 4:17 a.m. PST |
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| GROSSMAN | 27 Mar 2014 5:31 a.m. PST |
It's about time some one else ponied up and built a carrier.
It will be interesting to see if the Brits can bring in @ 3 billion. |
| Rhino Co | 27 Mar 2014 7:50 a.m. PST |
That's for the ship. Start putting F-35s on it and the price will shoot through the roof. Those are calculated on a seperate contract. F-35 flyaway cost, 2013: USD $199.4 USDM/copy. |
| Tango01 | 27 Mar 2014 10:12 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend. Amicalement
Armand |
| MajorB | 27 Mar 2014 11:02 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend. Friends, surely? Or are the other two respondents not your friends? |
 Editor in Chief Bill  | 28 Mar 2014 6:12 p.m. PST |
Maybe he knows who his friends are.  |
| Mako11 | 28 Mar 2014 10:28 p.m. PST |
Ah, the irony. Britain's "thru deck cruisers" actually had aircraft for them, and these "aircraft carriers" do not. So much for truth in advertising. Perhaps "mobile water displacement modules" would be better. |
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