I love that the April fools joke is that we are ordering a 3rd Aircraft carrier, since the reality is that we got two carriers that we can't fully staff or equipment, and they keep having major breakdowns even though their brand new, and the 2nd carrier almost got scrapped straight away and the government keep threatening to do it.
Having a 3rd one is beyond absurd at this stage.
>Why not just do what the Marines and Japan did
Because that would be too logical. The QE's have always been a vanity project. The UK could have had 3-4 LHDs for the price of 2 QEs which would give them >The airpower they originally wanted >Much better readiness >Manpower requirements that could actually be met >A fix to their shitty amphibious capabilities
Instead they have a class of ships that addresses none of their problems while being a massive logistics sink.
Lets break it down. >3-4 at cost of 2 QEs
WASP class $2.2bn (capacity for 20 F35)
QE cost $3.5bn (Capacity for 70 F35)
Yeh you could have 3 worse ships for less i guess. >Airpower
Less Aircraft Less ammuntion stowage etc etc. >Readiness
Le dailyfail meme >Manpower
WASP crew 1080
QE crew 760
Why would the RN want a shitty 'not a carrier' with worse equipment and that requires a much larger crew despite being 25k tonnes smaller?
>Why not just do what the Marines and Japan did
Because that would be too logical. The QE's have always been a vanity project. The UK could have had 3-4 LHDs for the price of 2 QEs which would give them >The airpower they originally wanted >Much better readiness >Manpower requirements that could actually be met >A fix to their shitty amphibious capabilities
Instead they have a class of ships that addresses none of their problems while being a massive logistics sink.
Buy amphibious assault ships not quazi jack of all trades masters of none. Unless you already have full size carriers its a non starter.
QEs plus Mistrals would be infinatly better than 5 wasps
There are 57 spots for F-35s, 24 in the hangar and 33 on deck, with room for landing and takeoff. However, it would hamper smooth flow of operations, and the AEW Merlins would have to be hosted on other ships e.g. RFA Argus.
>Why not just do what the Marines and Japan did
Because that would be too logical. The QE's have always been a vanity project. The UK could have had 3-4 LHDs for the price of 2 QEs which would give them >The airpower they originally wanted >Much better readiness >Manpower requirements that could actually be met >A fix to their shitty amphibious capabilities
Instead they have a class of ships that addresses none of their problems while being a massive logistics sink.
Everything you said is totally wrong.
Don't express an opinion on this subject ever again.
>Surrounded by threats >spend your entire navy budget on white elephants you can't actually man
Is British naval procurement actually worse than US naval procurement?
Congratulations, and thank you for reading the whole article; this is just an April Fools Day joke. The article above is not true, and if anyone is sharing it after April 1st, please remind them of that fact.
The purpose of this article, aside from our usual April Fool’s Day joke, is to make the point that reading beyond the headline should be the norm every day, not just on the 1st of April. There’s a large volume of misinformation online. Make sure you don’t add to it by sharing articles without reading them. Finally, be careful of the person sharing this article after the 1st of April as they very clearly don’t read what they share
Warriortard here. It turns out to be an April fools joke, just as the British intel spammers were getting a few jollies and warms and wets under their Fanny packs about finally being on par with China’s three aircraft carriers. Is this the first April fools of Britain’s century of humiliation? Can we look forward to more humiliation rituals in the future?
no. Its simply accurate. The "Empire" never goes away, it just moves offices. Do you think the average brit benefited one fricking lick from the east india company? That their life was better?
No they remained illiterate dirt farmers and chimney sweeps.
Do you think the average american benefits from pax americana?
no. They really dont.
Did the average chinese citizen benefit from China's growth, or are they all pretty much still state owned slaves with a layer of gold foil?
Oh I kept reading and it turns out it was just a gay lame Bong April fools joke. Not even slightly funny, maybe it is if you are so inbread your teeth are all fricked up and you still have a monarchy.
>1st of April >The first two vessels will be completed in a Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing configuration, deploying the Lockheed Martin F-35B, while the third will feature six catapults and deploy “modern Harriers or something, or naval Typhoon”.
The third vessel will be 480 metres long and have an air group of up to infinity-hundred aircraft. The projected cost of the programme including the third ship is now £187.6 billion.
>r a m p
obsessed
C U R V E S|
flatties need not apply
No, please no, not another one of those ugly fricking things
WHY DO YOU HATE US BONG GOV I JUST WANT NICE SHIPS
Good lord give me strength its an article from the 1st of April.
fricking slowpoke of a april 1st joke, i guess the router has been down in Mumbai since sunday?
I love that the April fools joke is that we are ordering a 3rd Aircraft carrier, since the reality is that we got two carriers that we can't fully staff or equipment, and they keep having major breakdowns even though their brand new, and the 2nd carrier almost got scrapped straight away and the government keep threatening to do it.
Having a 3rd one is beyond absurd at this stage.
>we can't fully staff or equipment
>even though their brand new
>and the government keep threatening to do it.
ESL
No, I'm English but it's 11pm here and I've been drinking
nah, you're esl.
Good catches anon.
Even if he was the blackest national geographic Black person ever, nothing he said was wrong and you just look like a child with no real argument
That's very consistent with how native bongs write.
>should of
is destroyed already*~~
HMS Oliver Cromwell
HMS Jimmy Savile
>ROYAL navy
>ship named after a Republican
>His Majesty's Ship Cromwell
>you're my ship now
>I always refer to you with feminine pronouns
if you think about it...
what is that tall thing at the front of the ship?
ship fupa
Tony Hawk commissioned a recreation area
A blue crane.
I thought they had severe availability/manning problems with the first two. why a third?
Why not just do what the Marines and Japan did
>Why not just do what the Marines and Japan did
Because that would be too logical. The QE's have always been a vanity project. The UK could have had 3-4 LHDs for the price of 2 QEs which would give them
>The airpower they originally wanted
>Much better readiness
>Manpower requirements that could actually be met
>A fix to their shitty amphibious capabilities
Instead they have a class of ships that addresses none of their problems while being a massive logistics sink.
Lets break it down.
>3-4 at cost of 2 QEs
WASP class $2.2bn (capacity for 20 F35)
QE cost $3.5bn (Capacity for 70 F35)
Yeh you could have 3 worse ships for less i guess.
>Airpower
Less Aircraft Less ammuntion stowage etc etc.
>Readiness
Le dailyfail meme
>Manpower
WASP crew 1080
QE crew 760
Why would the RN want a shitty 'not a carrier' with worse equipment and that requires a much larger crew despite being 25k tonnes smaller?
Not that I necessarily agree with
, but you missed the amphibious capability part.
Buy amphibious assault ships not quazi jack of all trades masters of none. Unless you already have full size carriers its a non starter.
QEs plus Mistrals would be infinatly better than 5 wasps
>QE
>Capacity of 70 F-35s
Max F-35 capacity of a QE is 36.
There are 57 spots for F-35s, 24 in the hangar and 33 on deck, with room for landing and takeoff. However, it would hamper smooth flow of operations, and the AEW Merlins would have to be hosted on other ships e.g. RFA Argus.
Everything you said is totally wrong.
Don't express an opinion on this subject ever again.
Britain is now a country of face-saving morons.
>indians flood country en-masse
>country immediately enters a moronic procurement death spiral due to face saving
We should nuke New Delhi
You bongs will do anything and everything to not own up and try to fix the problem
Wow the rn is really ramping it up
Ah well that will create some jobs if they build it in the UK
Is USA threat and EU threat not a politically correct thing to say yet?
>Surrounded by threats
>spend your entire navy budget on white elephants you can't actually man
Is British naval procurement actually worse than US naval procurement?
Congratulations, and thank you for reading the whole article; this is just an April Fools Day joke. The article above is not true, and if anyone is sharing it after April 1st, please remind them of that fact.
The purpose of this article, aside from our usual April Fool’s Day joke, is to make the point that reading beyond the headline should be the norm every day, not just on the 1st of April. There’s a large volume of misinformation online. Make sure you don’t add to it by sharing articles without reading them. Finally, be careful of the person sharing this article after the 1st of April as they very clearly don’t read what they share
Oh 🙁 I didn’t read it. I assumed good faith from an OP on the PrepHoles, which is obviously a mistake.
>another thread already full of Warriortard’s possible false flags, or hoping to fool somebody
Oh boy…
did he delete the last thread, or did janny finally get off his arse?
Warriortard here. It turns out to be an April fools joke, just as the British intel spammers were getting a few jollies and warms and wets under their Fanny packs about finally being on par with China’s three aircraft carriers. Is this the first April fools of Britain’s century of humiliation? Can we look forward to more humiliation rituals in the future?
Different Warriortard here (we are legion). I agree with everything you said, except you seem to be supporting the PRC. That's not cool.
nice
Britannia bros… We’re so back!!
We were never gone.
Is that some cope?
no. Its simply accurate. The "Empire" never goes away, it just moves offices. Do you think the average brit benefited one fricking lick from the east india company? That their life was better?
No they remained illiterate dirt farmers and chimney sweeps.
Do you think the average american benefits from pax americana?
no. They really dont.
Did the average chinese citizen benefit from China's growth, or are they all pretty much still state owned slaves with a layer of gold foil?
>April Fool's thread on the 5th of April
Would be a gay thing to do under the best of circumstances; as it stands, a really fricking gay thing to do.
With that said, I was just thinking last night how pathetic it is that the RN lost the third QE in the first place, so this is a bit funny.
>Russian threat
It's a weird way of spelling argentinian
It has to be named Ark Royal, right?
Woohoo! another floating golf course. Have we managed to rustle up some planes for the first two yet?
Nu-/k/ - Where nobody reads the articles, just like redditors.
I guess Phantoms is all they can afford when paying for every brownoid to come over and join a rape gang.
Oh I kept reading and it turns out it was just a gay lame Bong April fools joke. Not even slightly funny, maybe it is if you are so inbread your teeth are all fricked up and you still have a monarchy.
>useless fricking janny is an April Fool
CLEAN IT UP
> A joke military, and building a new missile magnet.
The bongs have just lost their way.
have they ordered any aircraft yet?
>1st of April
>The first two vessels will be completed in a Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing configuration, deploying the Lockheed Martin F-35B, while the third will feature six catapults and deploy “modern Harriers or something, or naval Typhoon”.
The third vessel will be 480 metres long and have an air group of up to infinity-hundred aircraft. The projected cost of the programme including the third ship is now £187.6 billion.
>UK ORDERS
I thought bongistan couldn't even afford to buy groceries tbh.
cool, who's going to crew it?