Building A British Aircraft Carrier Is No Easy Task

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Aircraft Carrier: A Mind-Boggling Building Job -- BBC

In a shipyard in Scotland the future of the Royal Navy is slowly taking shape. But the construction of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is a mammoth task.

Imagine an aircraft carrier as a 65,000-tonne jigsaw puzzle and you have got a good idea of the scale of the building of HMS Queen Elizabeth.

The pieces are being built at six shipyards around the UK and will be slotted together at Rosyth in Fife using an enormous crane which was transported by sea from China.

Around 10,000 workers across Britain are employed on the £5bn project with up to 25,000 engaged in building components for the Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft.

The carrier will have between 12 and 40 F-35s, or Joint Strike Fighters, costing around £65m each.

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My Comment: Forget about what it takes to build the HMS Queen Elizabeth, just look at how big a Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier is .... and be more impressed on what it takes to build one of those. On a side note, the zoomable image at the bottom of this BBC report is a cool thing to use .... check it out.