FFS. I'd hate to be your estate agent next time you buy a house and then ask where all the fukking furniture is.but not when launched.
perhaps you can point out any factual inaccuracies in this article:
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"Britain Spent So Much On Two Giant Aircraft Carriers, It Can’t Afford Planes Or Escorts
David Axe
Forbes Staff
Aerospace & Defense
I write about ships, planes, tanks, drones, missiles and satellites.
The United Kingdom is spending nearly $8 billion building two new large, conventionally-fueled aircraft carriers and equipping them with F-35B Lightning II stealth jump jets.
HMS Queen Elizabeth is scheduled to deploy for the first time in 2021, ending a seven-year carrier gap that began in 2014 when the Royal Navy decommissioned the last of its three, Cold War-vintage light carriers.
The U.K. military by then had already sold off the carriers’ Harrier jump jets.
Queen Elizabeth and her sister Prince of Wales are impressive vessels. More than 930 feet long and displacing around 70,000 tons, they are bigger and more modern than every other flattop in the world except the U.S. Navy’s 11 nuclear-powered supercarriers.
The carriers in theory are the steely core of a revitalized and reorganized Royal Navy. “Carrier strike provides the ability to launch fixed-wing aircraft from a ship to undertake a range of military tasks,” the U.K. National Audit Office explained in a June report. “It is central to the government’s plans for the country’s armed forces.”
But there’s a problem. Having blown billions of dollars building the ships, the U.K. government no longer can afford the aircraft, escorts and support ships that help the flattops deploy, protect them and give them striking power.
Nor can the government afford to modify Queen Elizabeth or Prince of Wales to support amphibious landings, one of the early justifications for cutting existing ships—such as the assault ship HMS Ocean—in order to free up money for the carriers."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...ft-carriers-it-cant-afford-planes-or-escorts/
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"HMS Queen Elizabeth: Water leak on aircraft carrier 'neck-high'
11 July 2019"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-48947455
£3bn Royal Navy aircraft carrier springs a leak for the third time this year
Engine room aboard the warship was flooded during the incident
17:00, 7 DEC 2020
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales is undergoing repairs after suffering its third leak this year.
An engine room aboard the £3billion warship was flooded during the incident while alongside at Portsmouth Naval Base.
It has been reported that the leak has forced the ship to postpone a trip to the US to exercise with F35B Lightning jets.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/3bn-royal-navy-aircraft-carrier-19416000
"The navy’s flagship £3.2 billion aircraft carrier sprang a leak weeks before it was due to set off on its maiden world voyage.
A pipe in the HMS Queen Elizabeth, known as “Big Lizzie”, ruptured, allowing salt water to flow into the vessel while it was sailing from Portsmouth to Scotland in March."
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...ang-leak-weeks-before-maiden-voyage-pxts9jlqz
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Like the Titanic?
I'd hate to be your husband when you move into a house and explain you've sold all the old furniture and can't afford to buy new.
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they should have employed decent
Plumbers
did they not have any rescue tape in there tool kit ?
The QE was built in Scotland, and if JD is saying that the Scottish workforce are shiit and produce low quality work, that's one thing.
But what he is also inferring is that the UK government are somehow to blame for that. Which perhaps means that any future ships would be better being built in English yards, with JDs blessing. Whooppee.
But what he is also inferring is that the UK government are somehow to blame for that. Which perhaps means that any future ships would be better being built in English yards, with JDs blessing. Whooppee.
built in Scotland
could explain the issues than
work force infiltrated by the SNP
sabotage
could be a conspiracy ( theory) there
I'm pretty sure that the UK government is responsible for Procurement. Who is responsible for the UK's eager acceptance of the gig economy, unsecure employment, zero-hours contracts and the loss of interest in trained and skilled employees?
How many FTSE100 companies do you know where the Board contains a Dr. Ing or a Dipl. Ing? Or the Head of Research and Development? Are you old enough to have heard of Engineering Apprenticeships?
What qualifications do Oliver Zipse, Milan Nedeljković and Frank Weber have?
Markus Schäfer? Bernd Pischetsrieder? Roland Busch?
How do they compare to Emma Walmsley, Jon Stanton, Graham Day?
Entry requirements needed for a CEO in major UK company: fully paid member of Old Boys Network
Procurement is the "procurement" stage up to contract award. Not the contract management or quality checks.
So the UK government is not responsible for crap work by shiit Scottish yard workers.
Im here all week for any more clarifications of your warped view of the world.
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You warped that.
What you mean is that youre here all week to provide warped views of things which are clear to everbody else.
Looks like JohnD
has a problem
if the carriers were ca rp built than it must have been by an English work force
on the other hand the carriers were built in Scotland
hmmm what a conundrum
perhaps he can grub up some thing that will show that it was built in Scotland but all the work force were English
Or hang on may be most of the work force voted for buffoon Johnson well that would explain the leak
there must be some thing some where
Just saying but Er were the *****h involved
has a problem
if the carriers were ca rp built than it must have been by an English work force
on the other hand the carriers were built in Scotland
hmmm what a conundrum
perhaps he can grub up some thing that will show that it was built in Scotland but all the work force were English
Or hang on may be most of the work force voted for buffoon Johnson
well that would explain the leak there must be some thing some where
Just saying but Er were the *****h involved
poor Woody's xenophobia leads him to attack workers in parts of the UK different to his own.
Additionally, he has not grasped that Procurement qualification includes identifying products and suppliers that meet the required quality standards.
I'm sure he is fully aware that budgets and affordability are determined by the government in power. Which for the past 12 years has been Tories.
Additionally, he has not grasped that Procurement qualification includes identifying products and suppliers that meet the required quality standards.
I'm sure he is fully aware that budgets and affordability are determined by the government in power. Which for the past 12 years has been Tories.
Yet again, you seem to be promoting other countries over our own.
if you dislike the UK so much, why are you still here?
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Of course the English were involved.Just saying but Er were the *****h involved
Who d'ya think paid for it?
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