Originally posted by Sparky42
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the biggy after WW2 was the lack of cheap steel and a huge fleet that in peace time it didn't need, a lot of it on its last legs and lastly Britain was bankrupt and all the current issues have their roots in these.
The PoW class are an effort to put Carriers back where the natural progression should have been directly after WW2.
Aeroplanes had evolved too fast for carriers to keep up so short term upgrades were sought. In the case of ArK Royal, it was never designed to operate the likes of phantoms and if it was even safe is open to discussion.
All the supports were hybrids and the first true new design was the Leanders, problem being the RN became over dependant on them.
Ship design was done by hand and various mathematical calculations and was an artform in itself just to get a conventional ship to model form so its not suprising how limited progress was.
Enter the POW class which have all but set records from design to build to finish and thus actually frightening a lot of people.
If they were operated by the US or even the French they could be a success, but penny pinching in the RN along with political interference will be the ruination of them service wise no matter how good they actually are.
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