That's the plan

War Plan Red has noted how extremely dependent the UK is on areas beyond the home islands

Reassert the queen's claims to the duchies of Aquitane and Normandy

Before a study conducted during WWII, UK war planning evidently called for capitulation in the event that the home islands were blockaded

Well, the hope was economies of scale would lower the cost of the aircraft @leavethisbotnet

Which to an extent is happening

When you look at origional unit costs compared to today

But there were too many requirements from the US military on the aircraft

Developing our own planes would be stupidly expensive

It's *too* multirole.

The only countries that are buying F-35 are those that want to earn US good boy points.

Sadly true @Dubdogelmo

Well, the UK is developing its own new multirole aircraft

War Plan Red notes that the only things the UK home islands were self-sufficient in in the 1930's were fish, coal, iron, and some vegetables. Everything else required imports from the empire or abroad, and I don't think that situation has changed much

The Tempest program

Turkey pretty much bankrupted themselves trying to design their own fighter jet

But the UK has a pretty good arms industry atm

except the UK, I guess, who in their infinite wisdom built a CV that couldn't be used with anything other than F-35

before it turned out how shit F-35 is

A

FUCKING

RAMP

Ramps are maximum aesthetic

None of this flat yankee doodle shite

It makes sense, if lockheed didn't fuck up so massively

"flat yankee doodle shite" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(91)

You got me there

Or just get some swordfishes, surely Queen Elizabeth class can support those (:

Too bad the QE doesn't have the even flight deck or the steam catapults to use them properly

As for the fates of the British carriers with those traits,

```Completed: 4
Scrapped: 4```

```Fate: Sold for scrap in 1955
Status: Scrapped```

```Completed: 2
Scrapped: 2```

Nah, they could just take of backwards.

Not enough headwind

```Fate: Scrapped 1978```

It's a fucking biplane, how much headwind do you need?

I suggest the Sopwith Camel as a low cost alternative

Anything positive, which isn't what you'll get if you keep moving the ship forward but take off backwards. ```Fate: Scrapped 1980```

```Planned: 4
Cancelled: 4```

```Planned: 2
Cancelled: 2```