Key Points and Summary - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth–class carriers launched with sky-high promise—and early stumbles. -Cost overruns, mechanical faults, and a thin F-35B fleet fed doubts about value ...
-Lacking sufficient F-35B fighters, escort ships, and logistics vessels, the carriers are routinely sunk in war games against peer adversaries. -Plagued by a token air group and an inadequate support ...
CNN — A British F-35, one of the newest stealth fighter jets in the UK military, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday morning while operating off the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, ...
It’s 28 years ago that the then strategic defence review started the process which led to our two aircraft carriers: HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. Sir Tony Blair began his premiership ...