Article 2TXSK HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier to take to the seas

HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier to take to the seas

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Ewen MacAskill Defence correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#2TXSK)

The 3.5bn cost of the vessel is so high that doubts have been raised over whether the Royal Navy can afford enough fighters for it

Captain Jerry Kyd seems remarkably relaxed given he is scheduled on Monday to take to sea for the first time one of the biggest and most expensive defence projects in British history, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

To reach open sea, he will have to conduct two complicated manoeuvres, firstly to take it from the Rosyth dockyard basin where the carrier was built and then under the three Forth bridges. The calculations are fine but the prospect of miscalculation does not appear to scare him.

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