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There will be no great explosion of fizz this morning as the Queen names the biggest ship in the entire history of her Royal Navy.

That’s simply because Her Majesty will be doing the honours not with champagne but a bottle of Islay single malt (after all, this thing has been put together in Rosyth).

Yet, in naval clubs up and down the land, the corks will be popping - literally and metaphorically. For today is about much more than a colossal new addition to the fleet. It represents something of a renaissance for our Senior Service.

At 72,000 tons and 932 feet long, the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier is taller than Nelson’s Column and considerably wider than the M25 at its widest point. She generates enough energy to power Swindon, she can produce 500 tons of fresh water a day — and travel 500 miles a day, too.

Above all, she will be able to deliver 36 F-35 Lightning strike fighters and 1,000 troops from the largest piece of British sovereign territory afloat.

Her sister ship, the Prince of Wales, is already in production, though it has still not been decided whether she will be operational, mothballed or sold. This week, the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, described the project as a feat of engineering to match the London Olympics.

You could say much the same about the price — more than £6 billion for the pair. And that does not include the planes.

These have been the subject of long debates, delays and a costly U-turn in 2012 when the Government switched from a catapult launch system to jump jets.

Nor will they be seen at today’s launch. A flypast using American F-35s is off after an engine fire in the U.S.

The Queen Elizabeth is so large that she will not come down a slipway but ‘float up’ as water floods into her dry dock.
And it will be another two years before she is fully fitted out and ready to leave Rosyth. After sea trials in 2017, she is due to get her first planes in 2018 and to be fully operational by 2020, with a projected lifespan of 50 years.

Since no photograph can yet do her justice, we have produced this souvenir illustration to mark today’s event.

Thus begins a new era for a service which once ruled the waves but which has had a pretty dismal spell of late. Old salts might trace the low ebb back to 1997 when the Royal Yacht was decommissioned and this ancient maritime nation found itself without a flagship.

Others say that the trouble started in 2005 when the Royal Navy insisted on a politically correct bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
The re-enactment of Nelson’s finest hour featured a ‘red’ fleet and a ‘blue’ fleet so as not to upset the French.

In 2007, Britain was humiliated when 15 British sailors and Royal Marines were captured, without a fight, by Iranians in international Gulf waters. Released 13 days later, one of them admitted that he had cried himself to sleep when the Iranians confiscated his iPod.

Two years later, the crew of a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship simply looked on as a British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, were seized from their sailing boat by Somali pirates.

And all the while, the surface fleet continued to shrink while the Navy was further eclipsed by events in landlocked Afghanistan.
Hence the understandable delight this week as the First Sea Lord, Sir George Zambellas, entertained the other services, politicians, diplomats and defence experts to a dinner in honour of the new carrier at London’s Institute of Directors.

They heard Mr Hammond praise her as ‘a vital message of confidence and capability as we plan for our future prosperity; a formidable deterrent to our foes; a symbol of solidarity with our allies and an advertisement for the Best of British.’

There remains one further challenge: squeezing this behemoth underneath the Forth Bridge and out to sea.
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Sedikit terjemahan versi ane (poin2nya aja yg menurut ane penting ) :

Dengan berat 72000 ton dan panjang 932 kaki (285 meter-an) merupakan Carrier terbesar dalam sejarah yang pernah dibuat untuk Angkatan Laut Britania Raya (setidaknya sampai hari ini).

Carrier ini mampu menghasilkan energi secara swadaya yang cukup untuk menghidupi 1 kota (seperti swindon), memproduksi 500 ton air bersih dalam sehari dan daya jelajah 500 mil (800an km) per hari

Diatas semua itu, Carrier ini mampu mengangkut 36 F35 fighter dan 1000 pasukan

Sebenarnya ada satu Carrier lagi yg sedang dibuat, HMS Prince of Wales, namun masih belum dapat diputuskan apakah ini akan dioperasionalkan atau tidak atau mungkin dijual.

Biaya untuk memproduksi keduanya mencapai 6 milyar pound (1 pound kurang lebih Rp. 20000an) ...so sekitar Rp 120 Trilyun (gileeeee beneerrr)

Sempat ada perdebatan panjang yang menyebabkan delay karena pemerintah UK memutuskan untuk mengganti dari Catapult launch system to jump jets

Kurang lebih membutuhkan 2 tahun sebelum Carrier ini benar2 lengkap dan siap dioperasionalkan secara penuh. Setelah sea trials pada 2017 nanti, fighter pertama yang akan diangkut direncanakan tiba 2018 dan dijadwalkan sudah beroperasi penuh pada 2020. Carrier ini diproyeksikan mampu bertahan selama 50 tahun

... Jadi inget comment Panglima TNI, Indonesia ga butuh kapal induk
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