Key milestones achieved in UK carrier programme

摘要

In recent months a number of important events have taken place in the construction of the UK Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth (QE) class aircraft carriers. At the end of July, workers at BAE Systems moved the huge mid-section of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of the new aircraft carriers, out the company's shipbuilding hall at Govan in preparation for its being transported to Rosyth, where the carriers is being assembled. The 8000tonne mid-section, known as Lower Block 03, was moved 200m across the specially reinforced tarmac at the yard.