The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-Class Aircraft Carriers: A ‘Strategic Dead End’

The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-Class Aircraft Carriers: A ‘Strategic Dead End’

Key Points and Summary – The United Kingdom’s two new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, despite being magnificent symbols of power, are a “catastrophic strategic blunder” that have left the Royal Navy weaker, not stronger. Their ruinous cost has become a “black hole” for funding, cannibalizing the budget for the rest of the fleet and leaving other warships tied up in port. -Critically, the Royal Navy lacks enough escort ships to properly …