It is absolutely imperative that the United Kingdom has new aircraft carriers to show its power against rising countries and old enemies. Although economy issues look a little daunting, they will deteriorate far worse with a fall in military superiority. The usual association with carriers and the cold war are as relevant as they ever where, although the use of carriers have been in other efforts continuously it is therefore ignorant to dismiss their usefulness, and as for the cold war, Russia is considered the most urgent threat to the United Kingdoms security with only al Qaeda and Iranian nuclear developments in front. We are already in the 2nd cold war and although this has not widely been presented in the media as people pick up on this it will become more evident, with Russian intelligence agents crawling through systems more now than ever. If you see such threats as irrelevant or non existent then surely you would find typhoons and other aspects as useless as well. If these threats do arise through any circumstances this extortionate price will redeem itself, although in my opinion the decision is a no brainer by simply looking at current political climates, risks in this world are prominent and sadly there is no wallet friendly way around that. There is more to these decisions than meets the eye as well.
not_so_SIS