U.K. Starts Building State-of-the-Art Carriers

Credit: THALES CONCEPT
The U.K. confounded skeptics last July by issuing contracts to the Aircraft Carrier Alliance for the construction of the Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales (DTI June 2007, p. 28). The 65,000-ton ships will be the largest warships to be built in the U.K., and along with Russia’s Kuznetsov-class...

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