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Buddy, can you spare a ship?

May 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Navy, geopol

Man, talk about a crew swap:

Royal Navy may share new carriers with France

(France and Britain) are facing a £2 billion shortfall in their defence budgets and the cost of the new carriers at just under £2 billion each is proving a major burden.

The “bilateral carrier group interoperability initiative” was proposed by the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, at his summit meeting with Gordon Brown in London in March.

French sources suggest it could result in either navy borrowing an aircraft carrier from the other if their own was unavailable as a result of a breakdown or refit.

That sound you hear is Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson spinning in his grave.

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