Britain has two enormous aircraft carriers. Sounds good? But in reality Britain can’t afford to protect them, crew them or provide them with enough aircraft they were designed to accommodate. Recently, HMS Prince of Wales was sent to the Arctic to try and frighten the Russians, but Operation Firecrest was a complete farce and should have been named Operation Paper Tiger. Find out the story here and the story of how and why we ended up with two ruinously expensive white elephant aircraft carriers.

Source: Operation Paper Tiger – Britain’s Useless Aircraft Carriers