Re: They should save time...
I remain unsure as to why we didn't simply licence the Nimitz-class design as a baseline, the tweak it to better suit the RN. Would've been cheaper than spunking money on BAe to come up with a non-modular modularised carrier that is designed to accept cats at a later date, assuming you spend almost as much money as the cost of the carrier in the first place to basically totally rebuild it so it can accept cats...
We could have saved a lot of money by just flying Super-Hornets off it too.
Like the French do.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
