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Jeff Head

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Construction of the Royal Navy's largest warship -- the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier -- is nearing completion at the Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland.

The 65,000 tonne vessel is 280 metres long (that's longer than the stretch of buildings that make up the Houses of Parliament) has 4.5 acres of flight deck and space for 40 F-35 joint strike fighters -- that's three times larger than her predecessor, HMS Invincible.

Beyond scale, the boat has had a technological overhaul, with many of the systems becoming automated in order to reduce the number of sailors needed to run it. The missiles and bombs for the fighter jets can be ordered up from storage containers deep in the ship at the touch of a button and will move on automated sleds up to the hangar -- a dumb waiter for bombs, if you will. This means that the whole ship can be run with 679 crewmembers, where it used to require around 1,600 -- 32 sailors can do the work that used to need 200.


BAE Systems has developed an encrypted Platform Navigation app (PlatNav?) to help people navigate their way around the ship's 3,000 compartments on 12 decks. Journeys on the ship can take up to 20 minutes, so making those journeys more efficient can be incredibly valuable. PlatNav requires employees to scan one of 3,600 QR codes on compartment entrances before typing in their destination in order to display the quickest route on a Samsung phone. This system is necessary because regular GPS cannot penetrate the ship's hull.

The vessel will be officially launched by the Queen on 4 July.
 

asif iqbal

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Just days away now!

Two interesting points HMS illustrious will be there as guest vessel and we will see F35B fly past during the launch

Will be good to see the comparison between the two carriers more updates coming soon
 
What's the total UK spending for
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? I'm asking because a simple google search just gave me figures (in billions of pounds) from 20+:
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What about the cost of one flying hour? (yeah I try to make the Typhoon/F-35 comparison and I know they're apples and oranges :)
 

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British-French Deep Blue training with from right to left : Westminster, Wave Knight, La Motte-Picquet and Torbay, also participated Illustrious, FFG Richmond, SSN Améthyste ( Rubis class ), significant training !

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asif iqbal

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Just drove past the Queen Elizabeth since the paint job and I honestly thought they and moved the carrier! It was so hard to make out usually I see the red paint job and clearly can see the radar and the two islands and make out tents on the deck but today it was almost impossible against the water and cloud back drop that grey paint totally had the carrier camouflaged barely could make out the two twin islands and I know exactly where I was meant to be looking

Here's a picture I just took few hours ago the light was dimming and you can not see much but it's the best I could do but actually when you are passing by you can clearly see the carrier this picture does not do the scene justice it's much better in real life and in person

But really with that grey paint it's gone stealth lol very hard to see and difficult to make out how much difference the paint job has done to the carrier is amazing they have definitely decided on a good paint colour makes for a hard target

The carrier is sitting right under neath the blue crane which is called the Goliath once you pass the bridge barriers you have a clean view of the carrier hope I can get better pictures on 4th July once it's launched will be very good
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