Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales supercarriers are irrelevant to main threat to Britain’s security – violent terrorismBarely a handful of the 90-plus pages in the government’s strategic defence and security review 2015 are devoted to the armed forces. And the ones that are,are long on promises and short on specifics. They contain enormous question marks, not only about the cost of a unique fleet of four Trident nuclear submarines but about another expensive project that is pretty irrelevant to the main threat to Britain’s security – violent terrorism which David Cameron says will last a generation.
Monday’s document refers to the two large aircraft carriers – the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales – the largest ships to be built for the Royal Navy, or whose cost is now more than £6bn,nearly double the original estimate. These, says the document, or will enter service from 2018 – but they will not play an active role in the navy’s fleet until well into the next decade.
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Source: theguardian.com