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**Chris** · Yesterday, 23:15

I see el gov has placed an aircraft carrier on 5 days’ readiness, with absolutely definitely no inkling at all that this would be misunderstood (and misreported) by the media as ZOMG WE’RE SENDING AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO IRAN and conveniently kill off the questions from the press and public who were *finally* starting to realise what successive governments have been doing to the Royal Navy since the 1990s.

FWIW HMS Prince of Wales was already on 14 days’ notice and was already being prepared for deployment because of a forthcoming NATO exercise. And there’s scant chance of us having any reason to send a floating airbase to the eastern Mediterranean anyway, what with us owning a massive land-based one on an island out that way called Cyprus.

It’s also functionally impossible for us to deploy an aircraft carrier outside of a NATO exercise or operation with the RN in its current state thanks to the RN having insufficient ships to escort it. So no, HMS PoW is not going anywhere near a combat zone unless Starmer can persuade allies its in their interests to go along with it.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,350	Re: Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran … War I see el gov has placed an aircraft carrier on 5 days’ readiness, with absolutely definitely no inkling at all that this would be misunderstood (and misreported) by the media as ZOMG WE’RE SENDING AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO IRAN and conveniently kill off the questions from the press and public who were finally starting to realise what successive governments have been doing to the Royal Navy since the 1990s. FWIW HMS Prince of Wales was already on 14 days’ notice and was already being prepared for deployment because of a forthcoming NATO exercise. And there’s scant chance of us having any reason to send a floating airbase to the eastern Mediterranean anyway, what with us owning a massive land-based one on an island out that way called Cyprus. It’s also functionally impossible for us to deploy an aircraft carrier outside of a NATO exercise or operation with the RN in its current state thanks to the RN having insufficient ships to escort it. So no, HMS PoW is not going anywhere near a combat zone unless Starmer can persuade allies its in their interests to go along with it.