Hval - so you're suggesting that we might get less than £12M per ship? Do you know, I believe you.
You think that EMALS is at the upper end of the scale? Excellent. The hardware costs are known, to a credible degree. The manpower figures to make up the remaining gap to £1.8Bn are simply not credible. Something between 10 and 20 million manhours depending on whether you think BAES charge £50/hr or £100/hr (both higher than reality) is simply not credible.
10 million manhours is 5000 people full bore for a year. A more credible estimate would be one tenth that amount.........