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| 'I hope it hasn't broken down AGAIN': Royal Navy chiefs cancel departure of £3bn warship HMS Prince of Wales at the last minute - after it was meant to take Big Lizzie's place at NATO drills |
| 2024-02-12 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Latest issue comes a week after HMS Queen Elizabeth stalled at Portsmouth Related: HMS Queen Elizabeth: 2024-02-04 British Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier to miss NATO drills. HMS Queen Elizabeth: 2024-02-04 Back she goes: Britain's £3billion Big Lizzie warship moors in Portsmouth docks after navy chiefs she wouldn't take part in NATO drills after they found 'issue' with propeller shaft HMS Queen Elizabeth: 2024-01-25 Aircraft carrier fiasco as the UK REFUSES to deploy either of its £3.5bn warships to help tackle Yemen's Houthis: RAF jets are forced to fly 3,000-mile sorties while vessels are anchored in Portsmouth |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship in her class and 'lead ships' tend to present problems that need to be ironed out. Also England, like the US, has a shrinking pool of people that would actually know how to build a warship ...and most of them have retired! |
| Posted by: magpie 2024-02-12 15:49 |
| #6 Missing NATO Drills sounds so much better than Can't Help in Red Sea Shooting War. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-12 13:05 |
| #5 Well at least the US isn't the only one incapable of building world class warships anymore. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-02-12 11:31 |
| #4 ...FWIW, RN on TwiX says she's underway. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2024-02-12 11:26 |
| #3 Rules the waves? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-12 10:48 |
| #2 Does Formerly Great Britain have a Lemon Law? |
| Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-02-12 10:30 |
| #1 So glad they don't have to rely on themselves for their own defense. /sarc |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-02-12 00:35 |