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HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)
HMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is the lead ship of the ''Queen Elizabeth''-class of aircraft carrier, the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy and capable of carrying up to forty aircraft. She was named by Queen Elizabeth II on 4 July 2014, and is scheduled to be formally commissioned in May 2017,〔 with initial operational capability from 2020. Her first Commanding Officer is to be Commodore Jerry Kyd, the former captain of HMS ''Ark Royal'' and HMS ''Illustrious''.
Unlike most large carriers she is not fitted with catapults and arrestor wires and is instead designed to operate V/STOL aircraft; her air wing will typically consist of F-35B Lightning II fighter-bombers and Merlin helicopters for airborne early warning and anti-submarine warfare. The design emphasises flexibility, with accommodation for 250 Royal Marines and the ability to support them with attack helicopters and troop transports up to Chinook size and larger. She is the second Royal Navy vessel to bear the name and is to be based at HMNB Portsmouth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Portsmouth Naval Base facts )〕
==Design and construction==
On 25 July 2007, the then Defence Secretary Des Browne, announced the order for two new carriers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= MOD confirms carrier order )〕 At the time of approval the first carrier was expected to enter service in July 2015 and the budget was £4,085m for two ships. The financial crisis led to a political decision in December 2008 to slow production, delaying ''Queen Elizabeth'' until May 2016. This decision alone added £1,560m to the cost.〔 By March 2010 the budget was estimated at £5,900m〔 and in November 2013 the contract was renegotiated with a budget of £6,200m. The in-service date was further extended to 2020 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review in October 2010.
Construction of ''Queen Elizabeth'' began in 2009. Her assembly is taking place in the Firth of Forth at Rosyth Dockyard from nine blocks built in six UK shipyards: BAE Systems Surface Ships in Glasgow, Babcock at Appledore, Babcock at Rosyth, A&P Tyne in Hebburn, BAE at Portsmouth and Cammell Laird (flight decks) at Birkenhead.〔(Construction begins at Navy's new carriers' Portsmouth base )〕 Two of the lower main blocks, together weighing more than 6,000 tonnes and forming part of the base of the ship, were assembled and joined into one piece on 30 June 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Another giant piece of the carrier slots into place )〕 On 16 August 2011, the 8,000-tonne Lower Block 03 of ''Queen Elizabeth'' left BAE Systems Surface Ships' Govan shipyard in Glasgow on a large ocean-going barge. Travelling around the northern coast of Scotland, the block arrived at Rosyth on the evening of 20 August 2011. On 28 October 2012, an 11,000-tonne section of the carrier began a lengthy journey around the south coast of England (to avoid bad weather) from the shipbuilding hall at Govan, to the Rosyth dockyard; it arrived on 21 November.〔(Navy News - Gigantic piece of HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives to join the rest of the ship - 12/11/2012 )〕 Her forward island was built at BAE Portsmouth and attached on 14 March 2013; the aft island was attached in June 2013. The ski jump was added in November 2013, leaving just the elevators and radar to be lifted into place.〔 , ''Queen Elizabeth'' was 80% complete internally.〔
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