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

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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```

```Completed: 3
Scrapped: 3```

Better scrapped than blown up, like most US non-Essex main battle WW2 carriers

At least that's a warrior's death. Enterprise got scrapped, but other than that we bothered to actually save ships.

Or, in the case of USS Constitution, keep it in active commission in the US Navy and keep the ship sailing under her own power 200+ years later

Somehow I don't think the military planners are of the same opinion

as far as warrior's death is concerned

They actually do, because if you keep ships as museums, there exists a possibility to return them from the mothball

Anyway, contrast USS Constitution with HMS Victory, the latter of which looks like the ship's on fucking life support: https://www.nmrn.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/event-image-large/public/field/image/how_adjustable_steel_props_will_look_on_hms_victory_credit_nmrn_2.png?itok=A074yAfu

I was referring to the "warrior's death"

not that armoured carriers make sense nowadays....

That idea of preferring a ship be sunk than scrapped dates back nearly 200 years on this side of the Atlantic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ironsides_(poem)

American "history" lmao