The Royal Navy faces the potential sale of one of its aircraft carriers, HMS Prince of Wales, due to funding issues. Despite the "heir and a spare" policy, operational constraints and financial pressures may lead to disposing of the £3.5 billion carrier by 2028.
    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      China might. To make a floating hotel or for scrap. You know, like what happened to Soviet navy after 1991

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 months ago

        Soviet carriers bought by India and China seems to be quite operable today, just as the one still in Russia. Much more than contemporary European vessels, of which only Italian "Garibaldi" is still in sevice, and it is to be decomissioned this year.

        Also it would be super ugly hotel, since it's probably the ugliest carrier ever made, and that include the early ones and WW2 experiments.

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    Amazing. They spend a fifth of the cost of this thing on sending 300 migrants to Rwanda...