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Old 21st Feb 2023, 19:12
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NutLoose
 
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On the programme that featured the Elizabeth prior to Wales was even launched didn’t they find cracked mounts on Elizabeth?

BTW she has set sail and we hadn’t enough munitions to fully stock her.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/worl...bells-ringing/

HMS Queen Elizabeth has set sail on a month-long training cruise without a full stock of ammunition and fighter jets due to “severe supply shortages”, it has been reported.

The ship, the most powerful built for the Royal Navy, left a jetty near Faslane in Scotland last week.

Admiral Lord West, a former first sea lord and chief of the naval staff, said the only reason the ship left the rearming point without stocking up fully was due to a “shortage of the weapons it needs”.
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Former Navy chief warns of maritime threat to UK security“I would be very surprised if we have got enough weapon stocks to fully arm Queen Elizabeth,” he told the i newspaper. “These ships need to be fully stocked all the time but we have not got the weapons.

“That ships are sailing without their full outfit of missiles and ammunition is outrageous. Once a ship sails, you never know what’s going happen. It needs to be ready at all times.”
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