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Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has leak
Just two weeks ago, the brand new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was handed over to the Royal Navy. It’s the biggest ship the navy has ever had and has a flight deck the size of three football pitches. For £3.1 billion, you might it expect it not to leak. But it turns out it…
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Britain to send aircraft carrier to Philippines
HMS Illustrious will head to the Philippines to help victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan, Prime Minister David Cameron announces.
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FactCheck: The cost of the UK’s U-turn on aircraft carriers
Jim Murphy has challenged the government to “come clean” about how much its aircraft carrier u-turn has cost the taxpayer – which he’d heard could be as much as £250m. “This is an embarrassing shambles,” he said, after Defence Secretary Philip Hammond went from outlining a bill of something between £40m-£50m only to admit later that it could be as much as £100m. Mr Hammond insisted however that the bill would be “much less than £250m”. Who’s right? FactCheck investigates.
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U-turn on government’s aircraft carrier programme
David Cameron has signed off a U-turn on controversial plans for Britain’s aircraft carriers.
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FactCheck: The real cost of cancelling aircraft carriers
David Cameron’s been accused of making the wrong decision when he allowed the increasingly expensive aircraft carrier procurement programme to go ahead. FactCheck navigates the choppy waters of defence spending.
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UK leaves aircraft carrier nations club
In scrapping the HMS Ark Royal, the UK is giving up membership of a global club with just one remaining member – nations with top-of-the-range aircraft carriers, writes expert Dr Lee Willett.
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MoD faces ‘critical’ aircraft shortfall as Afghan exit nears
Britain will face “critical shortfalls” in air transport and refuelling aircraft as combat operations end in Afghanistan, the National Audit Office warns.
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Watch: ‘Bombing Isis: on board a US floating fortress’
Artists Richard Mosse, Trevor Tweeten and Ben Frost spend time on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sending warplanes to bomb ISIS around the clock.
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Queen names biggest-ever British-built warship
The Queen names the Royal Navy aircraft carrier, the Queen Elizabeth, at the navy dockyard in Rosyth. At 65,000 tonnes, it is the biggest warship ever built in the United Kingdom.
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US defence cuts threaten UK strategy
President Obama signals a new direction for US defence strategy towards the Asia-Pacific and away from Europe – but will it delay the F-35 fighter planes destined for Britain’s only aircraft carrier?
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Huge asteroid to pass by earth
An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will pass earth tonight, travelling closer than the moon. One astronomer tells Channel 4 News it will “give us clues about other bodies that are out there”.
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Assembly to begin on Britain’s biggest warship
An 8,000-tonne section of the Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier begins a 600 mile journey from Glasgow to a shipyard in the north of Scotland to be assembled.
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HMS Ark Royal returns to port for last time
As the HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier returns to port for the final time after being decommissioned in the Defence Review, it marks the UK’s exit from an exclusive global club, writes Carl Dinnen.
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More bodies found following North Korea shelling
The US has sent one of its aircraft carriers to South Korean waters today, in a show of solidarity after the artillery attack by North Korea on its southern neighbour.
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UK and France sign historic defence deal
As the UK and France agree to share military capabilities including aircraft carriers, a defence expert tells Channel 4 News he is surprised at the “sexy” top-level deal.
