So now she's holed up in sunny Portsmouth having new ballistic windows fitted to the bridge wings, a completely new anti slip decking surface fitted because the original wasn't prepared properly and is lifting.
NCO mess rebuilt cosmetically.
"Why should Britain tremble"
I can only assume (considering the size of our sodding navy) that a meeting was held all those years ago and NATO urged GB to take the lead on this to fill an ever increasing gap in the front line of the future. Are they contributing towards it? or are others doing their bit to hold NATO together?
So we have one of the biggest carriers in the world (without any aircraft of course - but they could always practice croquet or something) and 4 mickey mouse destroyers to protect it (half of which break down in the heat) and one nuke sub in trail.
So £6000million for the carrier, £1000 million each D class and £2000 million for the sub .
12 billion pounds and each piece of hardware keeps breaking down.
Be afraid world - be very afraid.