U.K. Carrier HMS Illustrious Sold for Scrap

>>31085250
>sell carrier for scrap to Turkish firm
>suddenly Turkey announces they have a new carrier

I'll laugh if that happens, it'll be like Canada selling their carriers all over again.

>>31085250
R-r-rule B-britania!

The supercarriers are almost ready, onwards and upwards.

>>31085296
>believing this could happen
Are you retarded?

>>31086012
China did it with the Varyag

why not put this into storage for future wars?

>>31086169
>why not put this into storage for future wars?
It is 40 years old and the design is even older than that, why not keep WW2 vessels for future wars?

>>31086169
Because then anti-military spending activists will try and say Britain has 3 carriers instead of 2, so they can attempt to argue that less military spending is perfectly fine.

>>31086127
And they got their start with the Aussies selling them stuff.

I'm more surprised a bunch of poo in the loos didn't get the sale

>>31086169
because it's a rusting piece of crap that is outdated. would you drive a 40+ y/o car that had been parked down by the ocean?

>>31085250

They already failed when they allowed Dreadnought and King George V to go to the chopper.

>>31085296
Hurr

http://www.businessinsider.my/turkey-is-building-an-aircraft-carrier-2016-

>>31086169

It can't carry any decent aircraft anymore.

>>31085250
>U.K. Carrier HMS Illustrious
Yet it flies not the Union Jack.

>>31087027
>would you drive a 40+ y/o car that had been parked down by the ocean?

I WOULD IF I COULD BOMB HER MAJ'S ENEMIES FROM IT.

>>31091487
Because it's a warship flying a naval ensign

>>31085250

Goodbye Rusty Lusty, you served this nation well. Real shame you'll be such a bitch to maintain that we have to scrap you.

>>31089693

So Apaches, Lynxs and Chinooks don't count as decent aircraft?

It simply would have cost to much to rebuild as a museum.

With all the systems taken off it that could be used on other ships or as spares it was an empty shell.

>>31091547
>naval ensign
The British Ensign has a bit in the top corner.

>>31091621
Yeah, I know.

It's there on the mast.

>>31091542
Underrated