Cost of HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group deployment

That is astonishingly good value for money!

That’s outstanding value I think.

Let’s not forget though that the CSG was procured to do just this kind of work and so a proportion capital and routine running costs should be considered too in my honest opinion.

A resounding success and good value considering what it did for the UK’s standing in those countries visited and engaged in exercises.

As both current commentators have said, £73M is plenty of bang for you money. They probably wasted more than that on the failed “Track and Trace” !

Does anyone know the running cost of the 3 Invincibles?

Amazing value-for-money

To contextualise what awesome value that is The NHS spends 73 million every four hours…..

It costs money to maintain a Navy. As Britain has shown, control of sealants is of national security. A country dies without access to trade, around the world.

It should be remembered that the 73 million is just the UK additional cost. Plenty of allies also spent money. In saying that, I doubt you can find a single government or navy complaining. If you compare with the money so far spent (I suspect wasted) on a very sub par Ajax, this is peanuts. Half the world actually noticed a RN Aircraft carrier was out & about. The fact that others were directly involved (rather than all RN), guaranteed wider exposure. Even if your ship or mpa was only involved for a few days, you made the news. If this was a PR campaign selling potato crisps, you would think you had a bargain.

So in summary the loss of the f35 was substantially more financially than the total deployment
I must admit it’s a pleasant surprise to get value for money from military endeavours

Not much point in having aircraft carriers etc. unless they are used. To keep them rusting away in porrt would be a real waste of money.

Sorry guys, but “incurs cost over and above manning, fuel etc…” So, a million per port visit and munitions expended on ISIS.

RN sure do throw some great parties!

Very bizarre/misleading way to cost a deployment that leads to an artificially low estimate.

The full cost should include all labour costs i.e. wages, pensions, training and a proportion of the capital costs/depreciation of the carrier. This cost would be far higher.

in very very rough estimates:
The carriers cost approx £4bn each @50 year life that’s £80m/year depreciation (ignoring time value)
700 crew members, average salary £50k, full employment cost (benefits, pension, training, salary, payroll taxes) probably closer to £150k. £150k*700 = £105m
Incremental costs as in the article = £10m/month

Total cost per year circa £300m before it’s fired any weapons or crashed any F35s. This is a barebones estimate.

Add on operational costs of frigates/submarines and air group and the price really ramps up.

When you compare the cost of the entire deployment to losing just one (1) F35 Jet – which cost about 100 Million UKP – it’s a shocker. We can’t be losing a lot of these planes. Whatever caused that problem has to be thoroughly publicly understood and lessons learned. WOW.

Did they include the Cost of alll those Sausages consumed ?

The port chandler who provides the shore services in ports is a big cost. They sort out Tugs, port fees, gangway provision, Gensets, transport, food, spares delivery, customs clearance, personnel arrivals and departures etc…it all adds up.

In the USN they have just had another huge fraud case with their Contractor and its also the same one that the RN has used for a number of years in the past and present.

US Navy hit by another international bribery scandal | Stars and Stripes

How dare build ships and use them!

Waste of money, loads of other things need fixing first like our roads!

I genuinely thought a zero had been missed off here…very impressed!

The Queen Elizabeth Carrier class is a sub par carrier class design. It only has one type of plane that it carries. This limits Greatly the range, detection, attack, defense, that a carrier with arresting and launching capability would have. The Brits afforded this capability for many years.But have allowed the Royal Navy to be degraded bit by bit. Only, real war fighting capability should be considered, not looking good as if on parade. For years the QE was planned to be a full angled deck carrier with arresting gear and launching capabilities, every few years the newest plans showed a carrier that had less capability. Finally, culminating in a first cruise, where most of its actual war fighting planes weren’t even Britsh….

Naval Aviation is dangerous, you must account for losses ahead of time, in my career, I can off hand remember 9 crashes with loss of life, in squadrons which I was assigned to when the crash occurred. 24 year career, USN, retired in 1993. Those were peace time losses.. I didn’t count war time operations….