Anyone Know Yet

[pimplyteen]

If they have found the key to fit the shaft ( to wind it up) on that 3.4 billion pound British Aircraft carrier /warship. ?

[davebro]

Another waste of dosh - I wonder what major scientific breakthroughs it produced?

They might as well have parked a life-sized mock up in Plymouth Sound.

[pimplyteen]

Well they could toe it back to dock and use it for a hospital, we are a bit short on them, providing they can get the heating up and running. :0)

[pimplyteen]

Now the British government are saying that new submarines could be a better option. Get ready for the next big spend. :0(

[Paigntonian]

One drone and it's history anyway.

[vulcan42]

Isn't it amazing how disparaging people get when something goes wrong with a new ship. Nobody says a word when motor manufactures recall thousands of cars to repair a fault. How many parts in a car compared with an aircraft carrier?
The Americans are considered the leading experts on designing and building aircraft carriers yet even they are still having problems with the carrier Gerald R Ford, in service since 2017.

[davebro]

It's not just a bloomin' ship - what about the troop carriers in Afghanistan that couldn't withstand a strong fart & the new ones being produced that shake rattle & roll the occupants until their teeth fall out. MoD is a paragon of incompetence.

[pimplyteen]

A new ship that needed a hole welding up a few months ago. :0)

[ToraToraTora]

More 5C cobras!

[davebro]

cobras?

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-10966275/Kwasi-hit-backlash-backing-sale-UK-defence-firm-Meggitt.html

and wasn't there another one a few years ago?

[pimplyteen]

Thanks for your post vulcan42. Interesting point you make. When the manufactures recall cars to correct a fault. Normally they only respond after years of arm twisting by the powers that be.
They seemed to have planted a fault not to long ago in an effort to pull the wool over customers.
Just a reminder, the device that gave a false reading of low emissions. Money comes first, peoples health again way down the list.

[nero2024]

Paigntonian
a drone wouldn't get anywhere near it,
look up on its defences (that's public)and at any one time it has fighter jets in the air supporting it

[Spicerack]

5c? Everyone should care where public money is concerned.

[davebro]

//at any one time it has fighter jets in the air supporting it//

if they can afford to buy the fuel!

[vulcan42]

If the American public stopped eating pizzas for a year and gave the money to the UK, we could have built 11 aircraft carriers with it!!

[davebro]

No one can eat aircraft carriers! Tho' I believe a guy was 1/2 way through eating a double decker bus. Strange world.

[bookbinder]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19649947/cursed-navy-aircraft-carrier-breaks-down/

[douglas9401]

Cursed eh? Could come in handy for NATO exorcises.

[Peter Pedant]

// Nobody says a word when motor manufactures recall thousands of cars to repair a fault.//

yeah they do - faulty memory or "recall bias"

Ralph Nader of Nader's Raiders made a career out of it
author of - - "unsafe at any speed" 1968-70

[William51]

They have got to find the man who has the key to the keys cabinet.