You Thought We Wasted Military Dollars in the USA?

Sure, we'll buy a handful of $1.2Bn airplanes for kicks stealth bombing capability and then crash one (oops!)

But at least we didn't float two £1.1Billion destroyers without first making sure that the Sea Viper/PAAMS weapons system for which they were designed was even practicable. Make that £1.1Bn right down the drain, plus operating and manpower for a FULL YEAR, plus another almost-unarmed destroyer
just delivered for another £1.1Bn.

We also didn't order two aircraft carriers and then only order one air group worth of airplanes. Why only one air group? Because the planes are expensive, you see, and they designed the fancy-pants new aircraft carriers WITHOUT the capability to launch and recover conventional "tailhook" airplanes.

Hmm . . . maybe they could leave UK without year-round carrier capability save some costs instead by selling one of the carriers?

This, from what was once the world's dominant naval superpower.