Article

2024-02-12 Britain

'I hope it hasn't broken down AGAIN': Royal Navy chiefs cancel departure of £3bn warship HMS Prince of Wales at the last minute - after it was meant to take Big Lizzie's place at NATO drills

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top

#1 So glad they don't have to rely on themselves for their own defense. /sarc

Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-12 00:35|| 2024-02-12 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Does Formerly Great Britain have a Lemon Law?

Posted by EMS Artifact 2024-02-12 10:30|| 2024-02-12 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Rules the waves?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-12 10:48|| 2024-02-12 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 ...FWIW, RN on TwiX says she's underway.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-02-12 11:26|| 2024-02-12 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Well at least the US isn't the only one incapable of building world class warships anymore.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-12 11:31|| 2024-02-12 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Missing NATO Drills sounds so much better than Can't Help in Red Sea Shooting War.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-12 13:05|| 2024-02-12 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship in her class and 'lead ships' tend to present problems that need to be ironed out. Also England, like the US, has a shrinking pool of people that would actually know how to build a warship ...and most of them have retired!

Posted by magpie 2024-02-12 15:49|| 2024-02-12 15:49|| Front Page Top

23:59 Omuter Guelph7959
23:55 swksvolFF
23:19 swksvolFF
23:16 swksvolFF
22:59 swksvolFF
22:47 Omuter Guelph7959
21:22 Skidmark
21:18 Skidmark
21:17 Skidmark
21:15 Skidmark
20:07 Omuter Guelph7959
19:38 Huputle Cherelet4131
19:37 Frank G
19:36 Frank G
19:35 Frank G
19:23 Silentbrick
19:19 Angealing B. Hayes4677
19:13 Silentbrick
19:11 Silentbrick
18:58 Procopius2k
18:53 NN2N1
17:59 AlmostAnonymous5839
17:55 AlmostAnonymous5839
17:53 lord garth