HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s only functioning aircraft carrier, is being sent to sea without sufficient ammunition and fighter jets as a result of a severe shortage of supplies, the former head of the Royal Navy has claimed – branding the situation “outrageous”.
However, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has countered by insisting the vessel was equipped with everything it needed, with ammunitioning “successfully completed”.
Baron West of Spithead is deeply concerned the situation has left Britain looking “weak” to nations such as Russia and China – warning the Government’s current approach, specifically a reluctance to spend money, risked leaving the UK’s military with “absolutely no resilience whatsoever”.
Labour peer Lord West, who served as First Sea Lord from 2002 to 2006, was speaking after HMS Queen Elizabeth, launched in 2014 and commissioned three years later at a cost of £3billion, set sail from Scotland on Thursday for a month-long training mission.
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