Contracts to build two Royal Navy aircraft carriers, the largest and most potent warships to be designed and built in the UK, have been signed by the MOD and industry today, Thursday 3 July 2008. ... The contracts, worth in the region of £3 billion, were signed with a new UK maritime joint venture, formed by BAE Systems and VT Group, called BVT Surface Fleet, and the Aircraft Carrier Alliance onboard existing aircraft carrier and Fleet Flagship HMS Ark Royal at Portsmouth today, Thursday 3 July 2008.
Aside from military porkers, who needs these things?
Dumbest thing that Europe could do is get into the Army, Navy, and Air Force business.
eggs-actly...if you're lucky, it ends up rusting, expensive to deconstruct and useless to god or man.
Mutually Assured Impoverishment... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
