Queen Elizabeth Carrier

£3 billion.
Wasted.
On this useless piece of floating metal.

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>be britain
>spend 3 billion of your valuable monies on a floating ramp

Idk why the fuck do we spend so much money on military when the only real threat against any country are militant sandniggers in a desert.

We have nuclear weapons which should deter any major conflict.

think of all poor african refugees you could've given large town houses using that money

Nice ramp dude

when ya bringing it ere so i can skateboard on it

Isn't it fucking phenomenal how much we waste, not just on defense budgets themselves, but on no-hope failure programs?

Is it any wonder we are fucked as a species?

>Idk why the fuck do we spend so much money on military when the only real threat against any country are militant sandniggers in a desert.
Exactly.

What on earth do they think this will help with?
Maybe they can send it to the Korean peninsula to get sunk by Kim.

w..what's on the end of the runway?

I helped design small parts of it. Rule Britannia

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Explain the ramp meme pls

Ramplets, they never learn

Disability ramp for Americans.

£3 billion is nothing compared to what is being wasted on HS2. Or the £50 million that has "gone missing" for that fucking bridge in London. What the fuck happened to it?

>A
>Fucking
>Ramp

Someone please explain why using a ramp, a tried and tested piece of equipment which cannot fail, is worse than using a slingshot that does nothing of value.

They can't.

They're just jealous of our wheelchair friendly carriers.

bragging rights
catapult systems are just better (if you're not poor)

>Not having an aircraft carrier in the form of a crossbow to launch planes at mach speeds

Shame.

Catapult allows for heavy and light aircraft to take off, ramp is restrictive in this regard, cheaper, more reliable than a catapult system that always (yes ALWAYS) breaks down and needs constant maintenance.

Ramp carriers get the job done, it doesn't matter what system is being used so long as the aircraft launching from it are bombing brown people. I think we can all agree to that!

Nothing at all sweetie

Designated shitting ship for your Pajeets. Maybe their curry squirts will turn it into a UFO? Spooky

If your boats not travelling fast enough the plane won't launch off from the ramp instead it will just drop into the ocean

>a ramp.

As I understand catapults are much more likely to go wrong and also weather dependent?

I remember someone saying if we had catapults during Falklands we wouldn't of launched half as many sorties.

Will it be able to kill mudslimes? Yes? Then it isn't useless.

Just think of how many ARYANS we could cram on board that thing if it stopped off at the Balearic Islands and harvested the holidaying KRAUTS there. We would be able to gather enough blood to see us well into 2020 and with only one trip too.

that in any war scenario will be sunk by a 10k missile you forgot to add

American carriers use a catapult system which is more expensive/higher maintenance but much more flexible in the types of aircraft that can be launched.

The QE was originally planned to use CATOBAR but was changed to a (((ramp))) because the costs were too high.

So now we have a £3bil carrier that doesn't even use the best technology available.

you never do physics or science in school? if boat not going fast enough the plane cant take off on ramp

I did two tours on an aircraft carrier and our catapults were just fine after thousands of launches

>a non country.

You mean the missiles that are basically useless with the new laser weapon that we're building?

Why do you think there's a heavy push for railguns sweetie? Because missiles are going to be made obsolete.

Nukes deter refugee and migrant invasion?

It's Americans mocking other countries for having smaller aircraft carriers (which need ramps).

The Queen Elizabeth-class is 280 meters.

The Gerald R. Ford-class is 337.

It's just yet another "Your country is poor" joke.

They can launch planes in any conditions but are much more expensive than higher maintenance

How cum the planes don't fall off

>>a non country.

>a non empire

>floating metal

Metal doesn't float, mate. Why are you making fake threads?

What is the point of building new Aircraft carriers if you're not even going to re-establish the british empire?

For what other purpose would Britain need force projection?

Austrias naval fleet was fucking shit when we still had sea access so I'm glad we're landlocked right now because we would probably have carriers with
>a fucking RAMP

>Yes?
I really don't see how an aircraft carrier like this would be useful against muzzies unless we actually started a war with Saudi Arabia.

DO IT AGAIN BOMBER HARRIS!

all their F-35 pilots are Americans as well

>brits too stupid to fly F-35
>brits know better than to fly F-35

We're a fucking island, all we need is a bunch of guns to shoot any boats.

not enough spindle velocidensity rotational monumental kinetic energy

>The Queen Elizabeth-class is 280 meters.
>Gerald R. Ford-class is 337m

Don't say that's America's smallest carrier

>spend twice as much
>still can't have a ramp
Americans can't into value for money

Yeah we know you're a non empire, with no carriers, no aircraft, no military and you along with Germany use broomsticks instead of guns to train with.

Sad.

Yes sweetie of course x

>all their F-35 pilots are Americans as well
No they are fucking not you retard, we've had UK pilots flying over all over South England in those F35 things and flying them in the US for training. Stupid fucking nigger.

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Gee, England, how come your mom lets you have TWO islands on your flight deck?

The concept of military and wars is completely anachronistic. There is rarely any utility for the money spent. Sadly, the Military Industry Complex will defend it to the death

What the fuck do you think have been dropping 2000 lbs of freedom on goatfuckers for the last 15 years? Aircraft.

>The concept of military and wars is completely anachronistic.

What a duck.

You hear that Ukraine?

>a fucking ramp

all F-35 pilots currently using the HMS queen elizardbeth are US Marines you bad teeth paki bastard

2nd one is how it should have been.

Yeah what a shame, 3bn wasted on military power when you could have spent it on rapefugee benefits.

>tfw you get culturally enriched in bongistan

It's worth it, lots of Muslims will die from here

Because hostile powers are aware that nukes are only going to be used in the absolute worst case scenario. If foe instance country X starts slowly occupying more and more parts of country Y they know they won't be nuked for it.

You can't just have zero response and all out nuclear warfare as your only 2 options. You need something in between.

we have to have the ability to threaten and invade any country in the world or else everyone will stop trading oil in dollars.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_George_H.W._Bush

This is America's largest afaik. It's not greatly bigger than the Queen Elizabeth which means the QE is still one of the biggest in the world.
That said, I have no idea which carrier is better from a technical point of view as oppose to waving their big dicks around.

However, the Gerald R. Ford is a "supercarrier" currently under construction that is going to dwarf both in probably every aspect.

Have they fixed the tailhook problem with the C variant?

Tbf the US' smallest carriers are officially the Nimitz class which are nearly the same size as the Ford. Technically though the America class and Wasp class are also carriers but the Nazy refuses to call them that because they're terrified that in the media and Congress find out that they actually have 20+ carriers their funding will get skull fucked.

I can currently see this thing docked from my bedroom window through binoculars. I'd post pics but my camera zoom is too shit.

I don't know why so many people hate it though. Once Theresa May slides into a diabetic coma and The Moggster takes her place, we can recommission it as HMS Brexit - imagine the shit loads of people we're going to be able to deport with it, it's going to be tremendous!

Not ones that came from carriers though.

What does the UK need an aircraft carrier for?

The US is their army.

>However, the Gerald R. Ford is a "supercarrier" currently under construction that is going to dwarf both in probably every aspect.

WHY THE FUCK AREN'T WE BUILDING SUPERCARRIERS
FUCK
Why do we have to cuck out on everything
just 1 supercarrier would have done it.

The ramp is an inferior system because it lowers your max take off weight, has limits on what aircraft can be used and always requires a max speed into the wind for launching.
The new electro-magnetic system will offer even better performance over the steam system giving fine control over the speed and power of the launch.

Think of it like this, you buy an expensive bit of tech, and for 10% more of the purchase price you could get 25% more performance. The ramp is saving 10% for a 25% reduction.

3 Billion I would have thought it was at least 6 - wow I am impressed with their frugality

yes they have

Yes faggot. We bomb muds from our carriers literally all the time. Frogs have too.

Stop projecting the deficiencies of the RN on your betters.

youtube.com/watch?v=aBP1wU6lHE4

It's so tiny? Like it's supposed to be the flagship of the British Navy for the next 50 years but it looks like it should be somewhere in the back of the caravan serving logistics.

I really don't see how that comes into the purview of what the UK should be interested in militarily.

and not only are the US Marines currently using the Queen Lizard, they are now set to be deployed there as well

you fucking bad teeth shitskin paki

We have an airbase in Cyprus though so don't need a carrier in the Med.

It's bigger than any other non-US carrier in the world.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/16/hms-queen-elizabeth-uk-3bn-aircraft-carrier-portsmouth-theresa-may

This video might give you a sense of its size.

>floating metal

actually it's a floating military airport with it's own nuclear reactor (or something) that can extend airplane radius since it's so flexible.

>i have no idea what force projection is or how it works

Top Gun just made it look cool.

>Yes faggot. We bomb muds from our carriers literally all the time. Frogs have too.
Even the Russians did it and their carrier is an India-tier garbage heap

Firstly, because supercarriers need super dock infrastructure. Secondly, because three carriers gives you the ability to rotate them for maintenance.

>It's not greatly bigger than the Queen Elizabeth which means the QE is still one of the biggest in the world.
But smaller than every other US carrier?

Smaller than the Forrestal, Enterprise, Kitty Hawk, Nimitz and the Gerald R. Ford. Oh and that's classes of ships not just single ships.

There are muds all over Africa and Asia out of range of your memebase. If you truly want global mud smashing power you need at least 2 carriers.
See above. Plenty of muds still need freedom.

I understand what the point of a carrier is.
My point is that the UK doesn't need this shit and needs to stop pretending that it does.
This is Gordon Brown's doing btw.

Get a job, welfare cunt.

ITS GOT A FUCKING RAMP!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
FAGGOTS!!!
WHAT ARE WE LIVING IN THE FUCKING 1930S?

Comments like this are exactly why people don't like black people around here.

What a completely retarded comment.

fuck practicality it's a big dick contest anyway

Limits the varieties of planes you can launch and they can take less payload than with a steam catapult system.

>But smaller than every other US carrier?
Yes America has lots of very big carriers owing to its military budget that is larger than the next 10 countries combined and deficit at 2.5% of its GDP.

> Not understanding relative speeds

Sadly it's not.

I'm not against having them I'm just not convinced that it's an effective use of budget especially considering what's happened in general to the military over the last 20-30 years.

>American carriers
and the french one (bought to americans tho)

Invade us already.

top gun 2 will suck because of this plane is ugly as hell and worthless as well

It's got two bridges.

You can say what you like about ramps and the money spent, but it has TWO. FUCKING. BRIDGES.

Not even the yanks have a carrier with two bridges.

ITT: Jealous losers who build carriers with only 1 bridge

In case Corbyn/ Labour wins
So UK stands a chance against US in cold war 2

ones a bridge for control of the vessel
the other is essentially an aircraft traffic control tower