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Re:The Jet that Ate the Pentagon by 46Bit on Monday May 07, 2012 @09:29AM (#3938875)
One new carrier and one floating Scottish island, you mean.
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Re:The Jet that Ate the Pentagon by arethuza on Monday May 07, 2012 @12:31PM (#3939692)
Just looked at the Wikipedia page for the new carriers, it seems we are going to operate one and keep the other in "extended readiness":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_class_aircraft_...

I presume "extended readiness" is civil service jargon for "scrapped as soon as it is built".

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Re:The Jet that Ate the Pentagon by 46Bit on Monday May 07, 2012 @01:11PM (#3939890)
More or less, yes. The thing is only being built because Labour managed to make it barely any cheaper to cancel the contracts than to actually build a second, unused & unusable one.
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