Oh dear me no, it's worse than that.
Apparently, there is an "Internal Combustion Catapult System" or some such, that is a vastly cheaper alternative to EMALS. Which would allow QEC to be converted to CTOL configuration for the price of a bag of chips. Only the incompetent MOD are ignoring it on the basis that the USN (and by implication everyone else) is ignoring it too.....
They've written a letter to the Chancellor you know.....
Last edited by Not_a_boffin; 25th Apr 2013 at 15:29.