Originally Posted by
Willard Whyte
Interesting that USS Gerald R. Ford was laid down in Nov '09 and will enter service in March '16. H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth was laid down in July '09 - and will be comissioned in 2017...
The UK last built an aircraft carrier in the 1980s. perhaps you could squeeze OCEAN in as a a "kind of". The US has built 8 or so in that time, each one 4x the size of the CVSs. One might say they know what they are doing.
So only being a year behind isn't too shabby in my book. And the other one will only be a year or two behind the first.