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The US doesn't need them– but they'd love to sell them to other countries to recoup some of their costs. Too bad their pricing difficulties have pretty much rui
by evoxed 14y ago
The US doesn't need them– but they'd love to sell them to other countries to recoup some of their costs. Too bad their pricing difficulties have pretty much ruined any chance of that working though, as Japan's already announced that they don't want them for more than the original projection.
- arethuza 14y agoThe F-35 is causing the UK all manner of problems as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17437272 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17437272 Unfortunately, we're already commited over $10 billion to building new carriers for them.
- 46Bit 14y agoOne new carrier and one floating Scottish island, you mean.
- arethuza 14y agoJust looked at the Wikipedia page for the new carriers, it seems we are going to operate one and keep the other in "extended readiness": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_class_aircraft_carrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_class_aircraft_... I presume "extended readiness" is civil service jargon for "scrapped as soon as it is built".
- 46Bit 14y agoMore or less, yes. The thing is only being built because Labour managed to make it barely any cheaper to cancel the contracts than to actually build a second, unused & unusable one.