Britain Spent So Much On Two Giant Aircraft Carriers, It Can’t Afford Planes Or Escorts

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Jun 28, 2020,08:00am EDT
Britain Spent So Much On Two Giant Aircraft Carriers, It Can’t Afford Planes Or Escorts
David Axe


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.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/06/28/britain-spent-so-much-on-two-giant-aircraft-carriers-it-cant-afford-planes-or-escorts/#e8719f15bcc7