Building Britain's Biggest Warship: On Board HMS Prince Of Wales | Forces TV
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- How do you make Britain’s biggest warships? HMS Prince Of Wales weighs 65,000 tonnes and is 920 ft in length. Along with her sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth, this is the largest engineering project ever undertaken by the UK's military, costing over £6 billion.
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I'm proud to see this, coming from an Englishman I enjoyed the idea that we used to have the greatest navy and think we should try and grow our navy with ships like these to become great again and defend our island whatever the cost may be.
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lol
Beautiful ships for sure. Greetings from the U.S.
We got a our back and you; ours!
What.
Roger that
Well a post that I can agree with 100%. I hope your new carriers are awesome.
I live very close to there
thanks, much appreciated comment.
British Gibraltar, UK Overseas Territory 🇬🇧 .Great Work !
Wow, the HMS Prince of Wales looks so amazing ship.
Wait until you see hms queen Elizabeth
never been in the navy or army nor do I have any connection but I fucking love this shit
This sort of thing fascinates me. What beautiful ships.
Your beauty is a failure.
GB needs to build one more of these carriers about five years down the line. This would enable the RN to put two carrier strike groups to sea at the same time. This would allow a third carrier to be in port at all times for refitting, maintenance, re supply, and crew training. For a constant rotation.
lol can you afford it?
Dim wit, look where the Brit Navy is now.
I hope that that the UK remembers that in the South Pacific they have an ally in the form of the Royal Australian Navy of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Of course. No-one better.
One hell of an ally and partner. Nothing but love for Australia and NZ too.
We will never forget our brothers, stay strong down there lads🇬🇧🇦🇺
u are not an ally u are us :)
@@DokktorDeth Well actually New Zealand is better.
Remember the whole Falklands conflict thing?
We asked Australia to lend us some of their ships to take over the usual duties of British warships while they were off fighting the conflict.
Australia said "No".
We asked New Zealand... New Zealand happily sent some of their ships.
Therefore New Zealand > Australia.
U can't say that is not one of the most beautiful things on earth
I've never read more wholesome comments from Americans and Australians
Prince of Wales has been completed. Ready for action now
Great job Britain!! Love from the USA.
why thank you dear game boy, and much love to
the.. THE U.S.A too.
The QEC's (sorry to say for my american friends out there) are the most beautiful aircraft carriers i have ever seen, so simple and sleek, i just love it.
I doubt very much that the design is"simple".
Good for you. Americans are just occupied with with with effectiveness and firepower and competence. Yours carries only 46 fighter jets, while the Americans carries at least 96 per each of their 12 active super carriers and 40 per each of their 20 amphibious ships.
You can have your beauty and pageantry, which seems to be your specialty, while we deal with actuality and effectiveness and firepower. All the while waiting for our even bigger ford class carriers.👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁
@@frank-ko6de I don't blame u for giving that reply mate,his comment was a bit shallow.
However we're in this together my friend 🇬🇧🇺🇸👌
@@Anglo_Saxon1 I understand that, Just pointing out the obvious. It is a beautiful ship, While our ships and planes have terrible paint jobs, to say the least. We're just focused on actual performance and effectiveness and domain domination, not ceremony. That's all.👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@frank-ko6de absolutely.
Beautiful ships
Outstanding
Can launch 4 F-35 PER MINUTE - that is nuts. When you think they are all accounted for and supplied with automated munitions, raised to the flight deck and tested by a fully automated system then launched. It’s hard to think on how incredible it is to be able to launch 4 jets every 60 seconds all loaded with weapons. So literally landing jets, dropping to hanger, reloading/fuelling and at the same time lifting another 4 up to deck to launch every 60 seconds continuously. That is pretty incredible by anyone’s standards.
Yep. 36 F-35s in nine minutes.
SORRY TO CORRECT YOU HE SAID 4 EVERY 2 MINUTES
@4:30 Interesting how that was a myth with the F-35's being harder on aircraft carriers decks from the heat of the engines. This is not as severe as some say but new ships are built to withstand these new temperatures and extremes from the F-35. (Great aircraft)
Not so. Your a dim wit. Look where the Brit navy is niow.
Good to see the Royal Navy upgrading its fleet and capabilities. Now if we can only get the rest of NATO to follow suit.
Germany not interested,what will you gonna do?Brexit is better you guys can enjoy yourselves.
@Intellectual Ammunition i agree.
The navy’s always looking to up grade were an island nation we have to
You guys only spend 1.79 percent of GDP instead of the agreed upon 2percent.what nonsense are you talking about?
I seem to remember during one of the UK draw downs that the Brits and the Frogs were going to be time sharing ships. Also the UK was going to have all their ships built in French yards. Glad to see you are coming back again and did away with that nonsense. You are still doing what the Russians still can't do, get a carrier that works.
Just need the planes now.
that was before Brexit happened.
now there are plans for all RN ships to be built in the UK
@@shononoyeetus8866 all RN ships are built in the UK, we haven't had a naval warship built abroad for over 100 years. Only supply ships are allowed to be built overseas.
Most carrier technology is British so I don’t think we need help from anyone apart from this government that puts a budget on things
God bless the HMS Prince of Wales and all the crew on bored they are all hard working.
Why you QE hate?
Great Job by UK building these ships I hope they build more. USA + UK Naval Hegemony is one of biggest guarantors or Peace in the World. Would be nice to get Japan on board too as they are expanding their Navy in big ways.
Usually I'm at odds with Americans but if I saw these two carriers in a joint Anglo-American task force I think it would bring a tear to my eye
The reason why the Japanese wont is because The US do not support the Japanese military/naval re-build up The UK is the only country that supports Japan in that. so if it did happen there would be tense relations between the US and Japan with the UK being in the middle as they agree with the Japanese but are close allies to the US
mk gaming can you blame us?
@@mkgaming5823 Actually on the contrary, the US would like Japan to build up more. Japans SDF has drastically increased in size and funding. They know what China will do to get revenge. China is crazy pro nationalistic atm.
Great statement but swap the word “peace” with “conflict”, then it would be correct!!
Fleet carriers, good old day's.
We should of kept HMS illustrious and save HMS Ocean and HMS Bulwark, the government thinks that scraping the Albion Class Assault Ship will save us money buy using the Auxiliary Navy Ships like RFA Argus and RFA Fort Victoria and let's not forget RFA Tidespring. As a Royal Marine myself I know how important the Navy and her ships are.
Naz Adder I totally agree with you these ships are ultra important and they should preserve them
how about this for a defence solution? pray to YHWH and he will bless us and crush our enemies and those who stand against his children?...alsoim pretty good with a sling and know that the hand of YHWH will supernaturally guide my rock to hit my target
Simple, the at sea nuclear deterrent, should be funded by the whole nation and not dumped on the MOD, 41 billion.
Now this guy knows what he is talking about. The reason they are being scrapped is because in polaticians eyes they are being used as lifeboats to bring muslim men to europe. They were built at barrow shipyard to land a regiment of mariens to form a bridgehead in forien lands
Royal Marines are permitted to criticize their "government" on social media? ROFLMAO.
Looks awesome. Can't wait until yours is complete and ours so we can admire and compare them .
Going to be badass ships.
Now we need another two, and stack function with the other services- make the RAF flight deck capable. A movable function ratio according to modern needs- navy air and land shifting priority.
I saw these two in dock at Portsmouth. Truly magnificent.
Complete military moron. Look at the Brit navy now
I think there's a Battleship in world war two that was sunk named "HMS Prince of Wales" that fought with the mighty HMS Hood
The UK has a tendency to use old ship names, a new HMS victorious is being bult not has a aircraft carrier but as a nuclear submarine
They are very beautiful ships of war
Great work....love it.
Let's get this thing afloat and ready 👍🇬🇧
I love this man
impressive it's very interessting it's great !!!
Gimme like an hour special on this, best content
This is vital to secure peace in the world.
Awesome
Awesome platform Great Britain awesome good job queen elizabeth and prince of whales job well done👍
What the UK needs is to design and develop a home-grown 5-gen STOVL-capable plane to fly from the two Aircraft Carriers...
...and I'm not talking about the American F-35B; I'm on about a proper state-of-the-art British-built descendant of the Harrier that's not as overpriced as the F-35...
absoutely
+Confused Blue Dragon
> *_"...and I'm not talking about the American F-35B; I'm on about a proper state-of-the-art British-built descendant of the Harrier that's not as overpriced as the F-35..."_*
Which is?
Nathan Peterson he’s saying it would be ideal if we could create a jet like that .
its a bit late as Britain as already put a lot of money into the f35 and im pretty sure they will have licenses to make them at home when they are finished
That would be a recipe for total disaster so fortunately pride and jingoism isn't what run the Navy. If you think the F-35 is expensive, wait till you try to develop a 5-gen aircraft that you're only going to sell in tiny numbers.
Good stuff.
Beautiful ☺️🇬🇧
Well I did not expect the name prince of Wales to turn battleships to aircraft carrier they should have named her hms ark royal
woow love it
Huge
Elizabeth Armada thats what she said
YUGE
God bless the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines 🍺
2 Carriers means the empire stikes back😂🤣🤣🤣
My thoughts,Brexit means back to tyranny and authoritarianism
Moses Lochang back to tyranny? We havent had tyranny for hundreds of years and even then EVERY nation had tyranny, we was one of the first democratic nations, especially with the magna carta
My father worked at Cammell Lairds.
Nice
On top of the two carriers, the Royal Navy should look at getting an LHA/LHD
Nicky K.D Chaleunphone I served on a LHA ship.
What about HMS Albion and Bulwark?
Albion and Bulwark are LPDs. Different role. A carrier is no substitute for a proper LHD. Hopefully we can fund one in the future.
What are the white strips on the lower hull?
They really down play the capacity of these ships. They can carry 4-5 squadrons of f35 in war. But as we can’t afford that, we just lie and say she’s built for 36 fast jets
No one thought the Harrier was worth a damn at the time.. Even in 1982 when the British sailed two carriers with task force with 20 planes and took out an airforce comprised with over 100 land based fighters.. 0 harrier loses...They performed so well the Americans bought them, and they never buy foreign military equipment. It worked so well they developed the F35B with the British.. The F35B may not have the range of the F35C but the British don't employ their carriers and airplanes like the Americans.. Different equipment, different use.. Don't mean it's less effective, it only mean the pilots have too be better fighter pilots because there air time is a little less then CATBAR aircraft..
The US had Harriers in development with McDonnell Douglas in the 1970's.
And that’s why our Marines in the U.S. still treasure the capability of the AV-8B’s that we still upgrade and operate. Eventually ours will get replaced by the new JSF but there are certain things that will always be remembered of the Harrier that that jet has done so well over the years. Some think of it ugly but it fills a unique role for sure.
Hammer 001 Don't forget about the undefeated F-15 Eagle!
Jassy---US has alot of Foreign Equipt...do some research for christ sake
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Cammell Laird 5:44, my Dad worked there.
Socratease 1 I worked in Lairds on that carrier, got a video on here of me climbing around it
whats up with the ramp from nitro circus?
Hammer 001 it’s because you guys can’t afford a catapult.
You also have a jail on both ships. lol
Wow
Just looked up cost 3.1 billion
Must be nice when your biggest ally has 6-9 ready at all times that can carry twice the aircraft compliment. So best scenario an additional 18(to 20 plus) times as many aircraft at the ready best case. Almost a 1000 aircraft conjunction ready to protect the world. USA/UK!!!
Like the video guys and gals!!
And she has that new ship smell, too!😁
When I first looked at it coming from America and knowing US carriers I thought it was dinky but looking around with the camera man, there really isnt nothing dinky about this ship.
Very impressive ships but can't help thinking they should of gone back to the steam catapults. Maybe we could of had a navalised version of the Typhoon aswell. I think that way the carriers would have more options in the types of aircraft they could carry & not have to rely on the F35B
We could not afford to develop a navalised Typhoon. F35 is our best and only bet.
No, its quite affordable. The problem is that it would need an extra half ton of weight to make it strong enough. That would reduce the amount of ordinance it could carry so the plane would not be cost effective or of decent performance in the modern theatre of war.
Afraid not. The F35 is the best bet. And there are far better off the shelf solutions such as the F18 if we had gone down that route.
It broken down on its first trip like the TITANIC
1:17 what's wrong with the Captain's eyebrows
lol
coffee od
Very impressive and compact. I wonder what the final cost is ? 🤔😊
just over £6 billion
but then again you need to think about the ships needed to be built first in order to protect the carrier which consists of 2 air defense destroyers, 2 anti sub frigates and a submarine. all this combined will cost around 15 billion pounds then more for the jets that are stationed on board the AC, not a bad price if you think about it
are they exactly the same? and if thats the case is the second one cheaper?
Common Sense exactly the same as each other just different names
no they are not the same,prince of wales has missle defence Liz will be upgraded
Labor party will scrap them in 5 years if given the chance
Agreed, the same goes for the Vanguard submarines.
I have a big distrust in labor, as all they do is bend the country over and give people money and the next people in office have to waste there term fixing it and the cycle repeats, labor can't handle any tuff situation, as for any economic issue they scrap our navy for the quick pound.
@@randombritishguy2686 we have the same issues with the Democrats hear in the US. The bad part is they have the media so most of the world will only see one point of view point coming out of the US. Every liberal thinks that government can save the people. Weather it's British, American, or now Canada. I just wish that like minded people from all around the world, would step up with one voice and tell the politicians no more.
The contract for building these two aircraft carriers was ordered and signed by a Labour government.
So pOW won't have the Marined landing craft onboard then like HMS ocean had?
No, its a dedicated aircraft carrier as opposed to an assault ship like ocean
Nice video. Between us, the U.S. and U.K. will soon have 13 working carriers. That will make Vlad the Impaler think twice.
Russia's navy is a joke. Quite honestly their navy would be wiped out within a week of a war starting. I'm all for these carriers but the money may be better spent on forming a new infantry division or a couple of brigades.
@@davidanthony8290 not really a joke, there submarine force is rather capable
RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES ⚓️🇬🇧⚓️
Atlas what do u mean
BRITANNIA WAIVES THE RULES.
Maybe after another 20 are built Britannia will rule the waves
Wasnt hms prince of wales a heavy battle cruiser durimg ww2?
It's the 7th British navy ship to be named that
@@richardross5928 ahhh ok thx for the info i was a little confused
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I’ve been on that boat
Let's go Scotland! Home of the best ship builders in the world. What would you lads do without us? U get all our oil too!
Wonder how straight the keel is :P
Zak Vince what would u do without England u mean
No economy
No currency
No allies
No population
No military
No nukes
That naval guy at the start looks like he’s on constant cocaine. But also the carriers are magnificent. Rule Britannia! 🇬🇧
Is there a difference between the Queen Elizabeth and Prince a Wales ? or will they be identical ?
Identical. Both will deploy for the same types of missions, so they'll more than likely get the same air wing, and in every other way than that they are built to be twins.
one is a man and the other is a woman
They should be a HMS Winston Churchill
The Royal British Navy Military Hierarchy should also continue to invent,build and develop all---powerful,all---advanced and all---high---tech aircraft carriers also known as "flat tops" just like the awesome,brand---new and highly sophisticated U.S. Navy aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Gerald Ford which already passed sea trials and now called,mobilized and deployed to its tour of duty/duties all over the world.Semper Fidelis
And Yes,The Royal British Navy sailors definitely needs much,much and much bigger British aircraft carriers in the near future like the fleets of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Strike Groups!!!
Are they ready??? Costs???
Very impressed. She's big! ,(But she won't fit ALL of Australia in her, not quite)
I first thought of the one which failed to protect the Hood and was sunk off the coast of Malaya in WWII when I saw "HMS Prince of Wales"
Jun Xian Wu you mean in the international waters of the south China sea? 😁 We are still around.
Jun Xian Wu, How exactly are you supposed to protect & stop the immediate & consistently accurate effects of a bombardment of the equivalent of a floating battery (The Bismarck) of its 18" Naval Guns, when hitting & destroying an aging battleship (HMS Hood) in mid-Atlantic during a full naval engagement?? Virtually Impossible! Yes! You're right later in 1942, the HMS Prince of Wales & the HMS Repulse were both sunk in the South China Sea without then enjoying the protection of aircraft cover/protection. Winston Churchill did not include an aircraft carrier group to support & protect these two (2) vulnerable ships & their crews then!!
Failed to protect?! The hood wasn't capable of fighting?! It was 2 vs 2 in that engagement...and against the Mighty Bismarck!!!. Sounds like a really ignorant remark.
wearing hard hats..good....that's what I like to see.....health and safety at work
Why did the captain mention “politician” so many times? I thought this ship would serve the country not the politician
War toys ALWAYS serves only politicians...!
Their parliament always screw the Royal Navy after WW2.
The politicans are in charge of the armed forces in the UK, but in theory the head of the armed forces is the Queen, who has delegated this job to Princess Philip.
I think in a crisis, if the Queen spoke out and commanded the army to "Stand down", they would obey no matter what the politicians said.
Perhaps because politicians take the decisions to build the things.
... politicians are the democratically elected representatives of the country who are elected to make those decisions
With F-35s awesome
Remember the time when Britain had more aircraft carriers than US
1943 I think.
Why?
@@DokktorDeth Because of the Axis powers, you dont mess with the Royal Navy!
Britain loaned a carrier to the United States to use in the Pacific. Lend lease was needed by both sides of the deal, Britain and America needed each other to win.
we also came to America with the original idea for the atomic bomb we had a team working on it prior to Americas entry to the war ,but Churchill felt it would be finished faster if we gave the idea and team to the Americans .what not many people know is because it was our idea we had a veto on Americas use of the bomb . if we hadn't been fighting ww2 we could have developed the bomb on our own in Australia .then after the war they found out one of the "British" scientists was a Russian spy and relations between the USA and uk cooled . so they wouldn't give us a bomb so we set up our own project and developed them on our own .we were the third country to have a nuclear weapon but first with the idea
Good stuff. Can sure chase around some goat hearders in Toyota pick ups in these things. 🐐🐐🐐🤣😉
Sana alll hahahah
It is all about the size of a..deck! lol
Michelle W my flagship is so small nobody has heard of it
By G*d, I wish I was young enough to serve on this ship!
Funny how POW "Learned from the Mistakes of QE" yet it has more problems than QE
Oh yeah the PoW badge
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I'm glad England and USA are allies.
whats england
These ship are ready for the Politicians! thats a first!
The mighty Queen Elizabeth.
God bless Global Britain :=).
Very nice but it doesn't have a Holodeck😏
My dream is to be a helicopter pilot stationed on this ship
Have you people not heard oc Trident. No defence against it lets launch now.
British royal navy best in the world
My father was a survivor of the first one that got sunk.
He must've been very lucky considering only a few of the crew men survived
Can't understand why were going down the f35b when we should have designed our own aircraft from when they started building the carriers. Understand it's 5th generation but I'm sure we could have designed something
do you guys even have the budget though? you would need to fund the research, development, and production of two carriers and its aircrafts from scratch at the same time
Tommy Smith For the price of the F35 and the capabilities it's not that expensive
politics
you kids don't have a big enough piggybank or like USA, enough printing presses to afford that