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What a clever way to test the water (pun intended) for the reversion to the B model.
Pop it into The Independent and see what the reaction is over the next few days.
Were this to be the chosen path, I wonder how much money will need to be spent on Queen Elizabeth to bring her back to the standard that will allow her to operate STOVL? One might imagine that a shipbuilder, having been told that CV is the way but only for the second ship Prince of Wales, might just quietly take a few hundred (million) quids worth of savings against QE in the sure and certain knowledge (or maybe hope) that nobody would call their bluff and actually test the theory that she's being launched as a full-up STOVL round.
I'd be a little nervous if I were a UK shipbuilder at the moment; for lots of reasons.
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