HMS Queenie or USS Gerry, they are still just great big targets to a submarine.

Spread of torpedos or a couple cruise missiles in the right spots, and they are on their way to Davy Jones' locker club.

HMS Queenie or USS Gerry, they are still just great big targets to a submarine.

Spread of torpedos or a couple cruise missiles in the right spots, and they are on their way to Davy Jones' locker club.

amazing how much money tobacco has. I thought they had everyone hooked so bad a buck a pack won't change their customer base.

Nah, we're barely replacing that 50 year old carrier Enterprise with the FORD which is about 75% complete, Besides I thought that the UK is building the Queen Elizabeth carrier?

Nah, we're barely replacing that 50 year old carrier Enterprise with the FORD which is about 75% complete, Besides I thought that the UK is building the Queen Elizabeth carrier?

Still quite a few years to go before she's completed...

Also the QE has no steam, hence no catapults, and need to embark F35C fighter jets, very costly, no F18.
Tullio

Carriers of the Ford class will incorporate design features including:[5]

    Advanced arresting gear.[6]
    Automation, which reduces crew requirements by several hundred from the Nimitz class carrier.
    The updated RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow missile system.[7]
    AN/SPY-3 dual-band radar (DBR), as developed for Zumwalt class destroyers.
    An Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) in place of traditional steam catapults for launching aircraft.[6]
    A new nuclear reactor design (the A1B reactor) for greater power generation.
    Stealthier features to help reduce radar profile.
    The ability to launch the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler, and the F-35C Lightning II

As originally intended, the aircraft selected to be used on the carriers is the Short Take Off Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the F-35 Lightning II, known as the F-35B. On 19 October 2010, David Cameron had announced that the UK would change their order to the carrier variant (F-35C) and that the carrier design would be modified to use a catapult launch and arrestor recovery (CATOBAR) system to allow for the launch and recovery of these aircraft.[16] This was because the F-35C variant has a greater range and the ability to carry a larger and more diverse payload.[17] However, on 10 May 2012 Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced in Parliament that the government had decided to revert to its predecessor's plans to purchase the F-35B rather than the F-35C, and to abandon the completion of Prince of Wales to a CATOBAR configuration.[18] The reason given was that, "conversion to ‘cats and traps’ will cost about double what was originally estimated – and would not be delivered until 2023 at the earliest."