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British aircraft carrier (HMS Invincible) for sale
- garyrichardson 16y agoI like the "Add to Wish List" button on the website. Please Santa, please!
- tomjen3 16y agoTrue, also the "Availability: In stock" is pretty funny.
- hugh3 16y agoFrom the fact that they're very interested in telling you its precise metal content I think we can assume that they're not expecting to sell it for a floating museum or a billionaire's private yacht. There's no price given, but I would estimate that it will go for approximately the cost of ten thousand tons of scrap steel, minus the cost of towing it to China.
- tomjen3 16y agoProperly, but then the fun things usually happens when somebody does something you wouldn't expect. Sadly, I don't have the money to buy it; would be awesome as a place to create a free port of call though. Work on your startups while sailing the mediteranian. Plus no pirates are stupid enough to attack an aircraft carrier.
- philwelch 16y agoEngines - Removed Generators and Pumps - Generally unserviceable or not working Doesn't quite seem so seaworthy now, eh? If the Royal Navy wanted to sell it as a ship, they would have sold it to an allied country; in fact, there were plans to sell it to Australia in the 80's, but the Falkland Islands War queered the deal. The carrier isn't tremendously useful though--it can only carry helicopters and Harriers, not full aircraft.
- MoreMoschops 16y agoWhy is a Harrier or a helicopter not a full aircraft? They certainly look and behave like aircraft.
- dmitri1981 16y agoWell, they are but they also have vertical take-off. What the person above was probably trying to say is that it is no good for launching fighter jets.
- philwelch 16y agoMore to the point, while your hypothetical eccentric billionaire can probably afford a helicopter or two, a Harrier is currently the only kind of fixed-wing aircraft that can launch from these ships--good luck finding one on the open market. The Harrier actually launches horizontally on carriers like the Invincible, but they require the ski-jump to launch, and the deck isn't, I think, long enough for conventional carrier aircraft.
- MoreMoschops 16y agoThe Harrier does not usually launch vertically from these carrier either, but they are STOVL aircraft; I think you meant to say that the original poster meant to say that non-STOVL jets struggle to launch from them, which is still quite a leap from claiming that neither a helicopter nor a STOVL-capable plane is a full aircraft.
- philwelch 16y agoApologies for the lack of clarity. I think by now you know what I meant, though.
- d2viant 16y agoIf it can't launch fighter jets, then what is the sloped ramp used for?
- waterlesscloud 16y agoI bet with some clever marketing you could get more if you sold a good portion of it off as keepsakes. It was at one time the Royal Navy flagship, and was in the Falkland Islands war. "Own a piece of British history!"
- MoreMoschops 16y agoSoon to be joined, I expect, by one of the two brand new ones. Look sharp and you can also buy the aircraft to go with it, as the UK has decided to simply hope no carrier-borne aircraft will be needed for a decade or so.
- tomjen3 16y agoWhy?
- MoreMoschops 16y agoBecause it's cheaper.
- philwelch 16y agoI imagine the Falkland Islanders must be rather concerned at this development.
- bradendouglass 16y agoNo engine, and the pumps and generator are bad. Seems like a good fixer upper (no thanks)?