This clearly shows strong and stable consistency in the proud tradition of our post WW2 Royal Navy:But fears were raised last night that Britain's new aircraft carrier could be vulnerable to a cyber-attack after it emerged the ship was still using the outdated computer software used by the NHS. Navy chiefs boasted the defence system on the UK's biggest ever warship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, will be NASA standard - rather than like the NHS system that was hacked into several months ago. But computers in the flying control room on the £3.1billion state-of-the-art carrier showed the system was still running on Windows XP. The vast majority of NHS computers hit by a global cyber-attack in May this year were running Windows XP, which can have serious security flaws."
HMS Sheffield was an anti-missile destroyer, it's sole purpose to intercept incoming missiles and destroy them. It was sunk off the Falklands by two incoming missiles which its computer controlled systems didn't see coming.
So we designed a replacement series, the Type 45 anti-missile destroyer. We've no idea how effective that is at intercepting missiles, since it's broken down in every ocean it's managed to limp to. Most of the engine system breakdowns happen just a few miles after leaving port.
And now we have this wonderful aircraft carrier, two of them in fact, but we haven't any planes for them. So we are buying some of the new American F35C planes for just one of them, which is all we can afford, and mothballing the other carrier as soon as it's build is complete.
The aircaft carrier uses a similar propulsion system to that which breaks down in theType 45 destroyer, so it might not get very far. And as for the F35C planes, their development program is the most expensive military weapons system in history, and has been much criticized inside and outside government, in the U.S. and in allied countries. Critics argue that the plane is plagued with design flaws. As far back as 2014 it was $163 billions over budget and seven years behind schedule. And the F35C planes on the one carrier won't all be ours, half will be US ones operated by them.
Britannia rules the waves? These days she couldn't keep order in a paddling pool.
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