A leaked consultation document appears to suggest that the Royal Navy will now order a third Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier in response to a resurgent Russia.

Sources in the MoD stress that the new ship, HMS Princess Diana, will incorporate lessons learned in the design and build stages of the first two vessels of the class.

In light of this development, we’ve spoken to experts involved with the planning consultation. Bryan Robertson, an analyst at defence think tank DMCS (Daily Mail Comment Section), had this to say:

“Waste of funds & Human Life! One correctly placed Smart-Bomb will see Today’s heap of steel turn into Tomorrows heap of Scrap! H.M.S. Hood took the Ultimate Killing Shell way back in WW2 DESPITE AIRCRAFT; No Smart-Bombs then, and the Germans sent the Flagship of the Royal Navy to the bottom, no problem! What Government ‘FOOL’ proposed this latest Folly? Who is paying him? WE ARE. Such vast vessels have no place in modern times. Time for the OLD Timers to Grow UP!! Have they not heard of the Internet?”

The first two vessels will be completed in a Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing configuration, deploying the Lockheed Martin F-35B, while the third will feature six catapults and deploy “modern Harriers or something, or naval Typhoon”.

The third vessel will be 480 metres long and have an air group of up to infinity-hundred aircraft. The projected cost of the programme including the third ship is now £187.6 billion.

Excerpts from the leaked consultation document are extremely detailed in just what needs to be changed for the third vessel to be a “proper carrier”. Local park based defence analyst, Michael Greene, has recommended the following:

“The MORONS at the government should order aircraft or we’ll end up with an AIRCRAFTLESS carrier.”

Other changes recommended by the experts consulted include stationing Trident missiles on the vessel, purchasing a fleet F-4 Phantoms, painting go faster stripes on the hull and additional crayon provision.

Congratulations and thank you for reading the whole article, this is just an April Fools Day joke. The article above is not true and if anyone is sharing this after the 1st of April, please do remind them of that fact. The purpose of this article, aside from our usual April Fools’ day joke, is to make the point that reading beyond the headline should be the norm every day, not just on the 1st of April.

There’s a large volume of misinformation online, make sure you don’t add to it by sharing articles without reading them. Finally, be careful of the person sharing this article after the 1st of April as they very clearly don’t read what they share.

Avril isn't real but good on you for digging into the source for this April Fools Day article.
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Martyn B
Martyn B
11 months ago

Happy April Fools day to all.

Paulo
Paulo
11 months ago
Reply to  Martyn B

1st April the day where government lies less, and tells some trued… To have a change… 🙈🙉🙊😜

C Miller
C Miller
11 months ago

I had my doubts about this when I opened it.
As soon as I saw “HMS Princess Diana” I knew exactly where this was going!

Marius
Marius
11 months ago

HMS Slava Ukraini

Mr Bell
Mr Bell
11 months ago

Love it. Well done. For about 1 second I got excited. Then clocked the date

Stuart Dangerfield
Stuart Dangerfield
11 months ago
Reply to  Mr Bell

I was over the moon too just for a second but to be honest when I quickly realised what was happening I also thought there are so many things we need more than another carrier. (Some F-35’s for a start to replace Tornado in the RAF Strike role as was always the plan)

terence patrick hewett
terence patrick hewett
11 months ago

Will the carrier have a spare drive shaft?

Frank62
Frank62
11 months ago

Stored in the spare-ships-wheel compartment.

Last edited 11 months ago by Frank62
Wes Hardin
Wes Hardin
11 months ago

If its going to be named Diana it will need a spare shafts.

RobW
RobW
11 months ago

But without aircraft obviously 🤣

Rowan
Rowan
11 months ago
Reply to  RobW

Oh no didn’t you see, the MOD announced that we will no longer be buying f35s instead they’ll be getting rowdy kids to lob paper planes off the ramp of them.

Frank62
Frank62
11 months ago

Bring back Phantoms & Buccaneers, my dream team for carrier strike!

Knight7572
Knight7572
11 months ago
Reply to  Frank62

For the 1960s as those are obsolete now

Frank62
Frank62
11 months ago
Reply to  Knight7572

Don’t say that, my ultimate hope is the return of the sea Gladiator.

Walter Wombat
Walter Wombat
11 months ago

King Charles would have been a bit irked by the naming of the aircraft carrier Princess Diana..that certainly would have made 3 in the marriage of the aircraft carriers!!

Jack
Jack
11 months ago

and I thought the landing ship story about aiding the ferry crisis was the April Fools joke this year!

Matt
Matt
11 months ago

In five years time some loon will quote this article and rant “where is the third carrier Scottish ship yards were promised?????”

Alexander Paul Stevens
Alexander Paul Stevens
11 months ago
Reply to  Matt

Probably by the same expert from the DM comments section 🤣😄

Mr Bell
Mr Bell
11 months ago
Reply to  Matt

😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅👍

eclipse
eclipse
11 months ago

I read this after the Scottish independence one; if I had seen this first I certainly would have remembered. Such is my faith…

Mark Cherry
Mark Cherry
11 months ago

Good we need a third aircraft carrier but need a royal naval with enough frigates and destroyers to back a carrier group up .

Tony kenny
Tony kenny
11 months ago
Reply to  Mark Cherry

Are you living in the 50’s????? Drones sunk the Russians flagship, these dinosaurs are reefs in waiting

MJ
MJ
11 months ago
Reply to  Tony kenny

All April Fools stuff aside, Moskva was sunk by anti-ship missiles which have been around and in use for over 55 years.

DaveyB
DaveyB
11 months ago
Reply to  MJ

Plus sending your Flagship, that was just about seaworthy, with half of the air defence systems not working, was asking for trouble!

Graham
Graham
11 months ago
Reply to  Tony kenny

Ships have always been sunk in war. You just need to protect them, especially capital ships, as best as you can, with layered defence – and destroy, decoy or deter the anti-ship weapons.

Mr Bell
Mr Bell
11 months ago
Reply to  Mark Cherry

Ruritania ship building programme has led to a doubling of all RN warships orders. So another 8 type 26s, 5 more type 31s, 5 more type 32s and no less than 24 type 83s.
So a 3rd carrier strike group shouldn’t be a problem

Mr A. Jones
Mr A. Jones
11 months ago
Reply to  Mr Bell

You also need reserve ships which the navy have none

Quentin D63
Quentin D63
11 months ago
Reply to  Mr Bell

Mr Bell, pardon the pun, but you’re going a wee bit “overboard” with your wish list!

Jonathan
Jonathan
11 months ago

Could we paint it pink, give it wings and call it HMS pig.

Frank62
Frank62
11 months ago
Reply to  Jonathan

HMS Pink Panther

Wayne Topley
Wayne Topley
11 months ago

Glad it’s only an April fools joke, we can’t even get two up and running fully

jason
jason
11 months ago

We can hope.

Bulkhead
Bulkhead
11 months ago

This is wonderful news, I’m so happy😎

Rob
Rob
11 months ago

April Fool, we are the fools paying out over £3 Billion for HMS Prince of Wales.

Spyinthesky
Spyinthesky
11 months ago

It’s to be noted, like the previous two, this new ship is not at all related to Princess Diane, the late wife of King Charles, but as the MoD tell us it will be named after the third daughter of the King of Bohemia who briefly took the throne in 1747. Having been forced to flee upon her fathers defeat in the Silesian Wars it is rumoured she ran one of the first fish and chip shops in Deptford and became a darling of the people with her pithy Slavic folk songs celebrating the beer producing heritage of her homeland… Read more »

Bill
Bill
11 months ago

Pinch punch…!!

Kaf
Kaf
11 months ago

Considering the RN is one breakdown away from having no carriers at all, we are making light of the very fragile state the service is in. The only real saving grace atm is that the Russians are in a far worse state of affairs and that the Ukrainian conflict has reversed the very real risk of the band (NATO) breaking up pre invasion.

But hey, April fools.

Chris
Chris
11 months ago

HMS Hood wasn’t destroyed by a well placed German shell.. it was blown up by sparks from the guns traveling down to where the sailors were storing the ammunition charges. They did this to save time loading the next round.

Jon
Jon
11 months ago
Reply to  Chris

This carrier will have £50m guns the size of a toothbrush to prevent that ever happening again.

Graham
Graham
11 months ago
Reply to  Chris

is that theory now proven beyond doubt?

GR
GR
11 months ago

Every single year.

Jim
Jim
11 months ago

I thought it was going to be called “HMS Planeyboat McPlaneyboatface”.

Harry Bentley
Harry Bentley
11 months ago

The MoD are a joke (not just for April 1st.)

Alexander Paul Stevens
Alexander Paul Stevens
11 months ago

Brilliant! Made my day, I did smell a rat at the new name and the quoting of a defense experts by way of the comments section, the budget got me too!
Fair play, that was a good un’ 🙌

Je
Je
11 months ago

“HMS Prince of Wales is repaired!” would have been fool enough…

Patrick
Patrick
11 months ago

I did like the “order aircraft or we will have aircraftless carriers” bit, actually topical and close to the bone.

Bulkhead
Bulkhead
11 months ago
Reply to  Patrick

🖕

Marcus
Marcus
11 months ago

I know this is April fools but a third aircraft carrier would be good imagine 3 aircraft carriers going on a world tour that would place UK as a super power! I mean they could just put the army on them use them as firefighters and put them on duty when ashore or going through narrow straights or even just like pot washers cleaners atleast then they would see some decent places in their career!

Zen Blas
Zen Blas
11 months ago

THIS has some Bull shit in i
this news ie there was never a officially a” Princess Diana “she was Diana Princess of Wales SO why would they name a ship with a wrong title?

Frank62
Frank62
11 months ago
Reply to  Zen Blas

Everybody called her Princes Diana.
Seen a calander today?
Our George Allison loves xmas & April fools day.

Last edited 11 months ago by Frank62
Zen Blas
Zen Blas
11 months ago
Reply to  Frank62

I know it was a FOOLS joke. But my Point is Officially as written on her grave stone and ANY Pubic monument or Place she Ever opened She was Never “Princess Diana” So a British Military ship would never be called that

Zoltan
Zoltan
11 months ago

They don’t have money for the second one,how they want to afford a third one than.

Andy
Andy
11 months ago

🤣🤣Brilliant…. 😂😂

Jon
Jon
11 months ago

HMS Princess Diana, ROFLMAO. Then it got better. Definitely the best of today’s articles.

Evie
Evie
11 months ago

Brilliant! It’s ridiculous how many people spread fake news just with a headline!

Gareth
Gareth
11 months ago

This development sounds a good step forward, a good idea would be to provision this carrier to be ready for, but not actually with aircraft saving billions of pounds at a stroke!

Daniele Mandelli
Daniele Mandelli
11 months ago

Ahh, sure you’ve used this one before George!
Still a classic regardless.

Inese
Inese
11 months ago

Maybe UK should stop give artillery to Ukraine, then there will not gone be threat from Russia. Maybe UK government should think about people who live in UK!

Daniele Mandelli
Daniele Mandelli
11 months ago
Reply to  Inese

Hi. I’m not even sure what that means given the poor written English.
It is no April Fool either…

Last edited 11 months ago by Daniele Mandelli
Richard Coppack
Richard Coppack
11 months ago

I’m glad it was an April Fools. The Russians haven’t exactly excelled in their invasion. Their economy is the same size as Spain. So at the moment, they aren’t a serious threat.

Simon
Simon
11 months ago

😁🤪 F4 Phantom with go faster stripes 👍🏻👍🏻🫢🫢

Brent
Brent
11 months ago

If I were you obviously make it alot bigger?

Mr A. Jones
Mr A. Jones
11 months ago

They need two one for aircraft with slingshot and one for helicopters for attack, sub detection, troop carriers .

Quentin D63
Quentin D63
11 months ago

Oh go on… I dare you to order a third carrier! 😁

Mickus
Mickus
11 months ago

The Americans will use it as a lourch pad for their own purposes

David Cracknell
David Cracknell
11 months ago

Actually a third one, crewed with Australian and New Zealand naval personal along with RN, for China seas operations, wouldn’t be a bad idea….even if an April fools joke

Quentin D63
Quentin D63
10 months ago

Like this idea. Thought something similar with a co-shared 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 squadron of F-18s to give NZ a “drop in” fighter airforce” if ever needed. F-35s for NZ might be pushing it.

Wes Hardin
Wes Hardin
11 months ago

To vulnerable to hypersonic missiles.

Zen Blas
Zen Blas
11 months ago
Reply to  Wes Hardin

You mean Fake carriers are vulnerable to Fake Missiles LOL I bet you it is impossible for any Hypersonic missile will ever sink HMS Princess Diana

Roger Sharp
Roger Sharp
11 months ago
Reply to  Zen Blas

I’ll join you in that bet. Even if it has a couple of Catalyna flyingboats for an AWS.

Jake
Jake
11 months ago

This part of the Mod duty. It’s call military add to a civil power.

John Hartley
John Hartley
11 months ago

It needs giant nuclear powered fans, so it can fly like Spectrum’s Cloudbase. SIG!

Roger Sharp
Roger Sharp
11 months ago
Reply to  John Hartley

What a wonderful idea…!

Ben
Ben
11 months ago

No flying M113s ? Missed opportunity there.

Roger Sharp
Roger Sharp
11 months ago

It was only when I got to the cost that I realised this was an April Fool, and that’s knowing that the two carriers have only 24 F35s between them, (optimistically, that’s 18 operational aircraft), not enough type 45 working destroyers, frigates or submarines to keep both safe simultaneously, and the absurd reasons we have two joke carriers and not one functioning one.

Roger Sharp
Roger Sharp
11 months ago

F4 Phantoms? I think not. This is finally a chance to continue the TSR2 program. Stick that in your pipe, Mr Wilson…

Ian
Ian
11 months ago

Bit of a mean streak running through this article. Not that it isn’t amusing.

Lazerbenabba
Lazerbenabba
11 months ago

Even if true the very fact that the criticsm is issued from Bryan Robertson an alleged defence analyst does not negate what may be a costly over reaction for GB.
IMO 2 of our our aircraft carriers will be enough of a fleet air arm facility in combination with other Nato nations to deter any possible threat, as that is all it will be, as neither the CCP nor Russia would dare to confront such an armada, especially not the latter with its smoking wreck of their only carrier.