Good morning Mr Boffin (said with much respect)
Has this latest carrier always been designed without any type of angled flight deck and when we read of these astronomical conversion costs for the EMALS systems will that include converting both ships to have an angled deck?
Whilst ship numbers mightg not have a place on this carrier thread it does ask the question though about manpower or the lack thereof.
More ships might equate to more sailors and if we are suggesting both carriers can be deployed at the same time, then do we have the man power? I have read reports which talk about manning the second carrier with NATO forces but I would believe that when and if it happened!!
The Royal Navy squadron currently based at Gibraltar appears to be less than effective when dealing with this latest Spanish 'Armada' and I do agree with your point about taking on our NATO neighbour but the bottom line is we either enforce these limits or we don't but that is not an issue for this thread..
Angled flight deck
