Britain’s new 3 billion pound warship (HMS Queen Elizabeth) has a leak
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-aircraftcarrier-leak/britains-new-3-billion-pound-warship-has-a-leak-idUSKBN1ED0OZ
The 65,000-tonne ship is hailed as Britain’s most advanced military vessel and was only commissioned by the queen two weeks ago but it has a problem with a shaft seal that was identified during sea trials, the MoD said.
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The Sun newspaper reported that the 280-metre (920-foot) warship, the nation’s future flagship vessel, was letting in 200 liters of water every hour and the fix would cost millions of pounds.
Deuxième sujet, sans doute nettement plus douloureux financièrement, le F-35…
Also on Tuesday, parliament’s defense committee raised questions about the procurement of the F-35 fighter jets from a consortium led by Lockheed Martin which will eventually operate from the Queen Elizabeth.
The committee said there had been an “unacceptable lack of transparency” about the program and the MoD had failed to provide details of the full cost of each aircraft which one newspaper had estimated could be as much as 155 million pounds.
“We strongly refute any suggestion of a lack of transparency in the F-35 program,” an MOD spokesman said.
“The program remains on track, on time, within costs and not only offers our military the world’s most advanced fighter jet but will support over 24,000 British jobs and is very much clear for take-off.”
(juste pour le plaisir de cette dernière déclaration…)