In the early hours of this morning apparently just two US destroyers launched over 50 Tomahawk Missiles which hit a Syrian Airfield.
Just explain to me why the UK needs two aircraft carriers? Had one of these been in the Med. with its F35 fighters (assume they are combat cleared to drop all the gear in the sales brochures) what kind of punch could it have launched against a Syrian Airfield? Dropped a few bombs perhaps? What carrier borne AEW do we have? What would we have used to suppress the SAM systems in Syria?
How come the USA used cruise missiles rather than a Carrier based air strike?
Expensive White Elephant springs to mind when I see our carriers.