On Mar 9, 9:03 pm, Jeff Dougherty wrote:
For those following along at home, the pair of CVs the Royal Navy is
currently buying is slated to run somewhere around 4 to 5 billion
pounds, which is around $8-10 billion US. The most recent Nimitz
class CVN cost about $6 billion, meaning that a pair would be much
more expensive than the Queen Elizabeth program.

The costs will rise and the design already is not worth the current
fib of a price.

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/cvf/
A number of protective measures such as side armour and armoured
bulkheads proposed by industrial bid teams have been deleted from the
design in order to comply with cost limitations.

Did they learn nothing from McCain's tour on the Forest Fire?

-HJC