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Subject: Is the Prince of Wales cancelled?
Le Zookeeper    11/6/2009 1:34:46 PM
That would have been a great ship and made Britain a sea power again.
 
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flamingknives       11/6/2009 2:09:35 PM
I don't think that it has been cancelled, but rather there will not be a full air-wing for it and consequently it will not be fitted out for fixed wing operations.
 
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YelliChink       11/6/2009 3:15:24 PM

I don't think that it has been cancelled, but rather there will not be a full air-wing for it and consequently it will not be fitted out for fixed wing operations.


UK arms acquisition under Gordon Brown is getting more and more ridiculous on the daily basis. If they still want the Royal Navy to rule the waves, they should cut spending somewhere else to fund two fully operational carriers. I can see what they are up to. Eventually, they want to cut PW, but, first, they need to neuter it.
 
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StevoJH       11/8/2009 2:25:50 AM
A government minister has gone on record in the house of commons within the last couple of days and stated, for the record, that there has been no change in the procurement plan for the QE class carriers.
 
Have a look on Hansard if you don't believe me.
 
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LB    Carrier but no air wing   11/8/2009 11:27:05 PM
HM government plans on buying the carrier but not buying the air wing in that they announced the F-35 buy was being cut from 138 to 50.  The irony of course being that the F-35 is a joint force and that the RN only gets one carrier air wing and the RAF only gets a small group of stealthy strike fighters.
 
The entire issue is quite simply because Labor keeps cutting defense as a percentage of GNP.  It was 2.2% in 2008 vs 2.4% in 2005.  The UK can simply not afford the force structure and operations given 2.2%.
 
I will miss the RN, RIP.
 

A government minister has gone on record in the house of commons within the last couple of days and stated, for the record, that there has been no change in the procurement plan for the QE class carriers.

 

Have a look on Hansard if you don't believe me.



 
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