Aircraft carriers will be increasingly vulnerable to attacks,says a growing army of critics.
Britain is building two - the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy.
There are many opposed to spending tens of billions of pounds on a new Trident nuclear ballistic missile system, who question what they regard as the shibboleth of nuclear deterrence.
An increasing number of defence analysts and senior military figures are now seriously questioning the value and strategic sense of the decision to build two large aircaft carriers, or the biggest ships ever to own been commissioned for the Royal Navy.
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Source: theguardian.com