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[QUOTE=Combwork;42513]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

[I][COLOR="black"][COLOR="Blue"] Latest insanity is the decision to go ahead with the building of two new aircraft carriers even though latest estimate is we'll have nothing home built to land on them until 2020. For latest estimate read government prediction. IE think 2025 at the earliest. We're building them because the manufacturers contract penalty clauses are so draconian that it will cost the government more to cancel than to finish building them.

The problem with aircraft carriers is they are totally specialised; as far as I know there's no alternative use for them. I guess you could say the same for most navel vessels but aircraft carriers are of such high strategic value that they cannot go anywhere without a heavily armed escort.

In the words of the famous American admiral, Hyman Rickover, "There are two types of ships - submarines and targets."

[Brother_Karl]

Originally Posted by Combwork

The problem with aircraft carriers is they are totally specialised; as far as I know there's no alternative use for them.

The government has been talking about putting lighter and less expensive aircraft on them. I think I heard that helicopters was a possiblity but a Minister has previously denied that this is the case. So, I'm pretty confused.

I see that you have not voted in the poll. Scottish Nationalist by any chance?