And they still blame the RAF for lying to the politicians.....
Source: Defence Select Committee, Session 1999-00, Tenth Report
Date: 6 July 2000
The Future Carrier and the Future Carrier Borne Aircraft
.......A carrier is not a complicated ship, it is basically a big box with a big hangar inside it and a flat deck and a sufficient degree of command and control arrangements to enable the ship to communicate, as it has to. It is not going to have lots of other weapons. It is not full of systems like a destroyer that is stuffed full of the most complicated electronics, etc.. When you go on board a carrier it is basically empty, it is just a box. What is complicated is the aeroplane. I do not want to allow us to create an impression in your minds that the construction of the ship is an immense technological achievement.....