Well this is no suprise...

[vetran]

How much funding has been committed?

£39 billion?

[BR14]

A custom designed version of Linux, most likely...

designed in brussels

[Mordac]

Maybe this one won't run on windows XP

A custom designed version of Linux, most likely...

[Mordac]

Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier cost is £6.2 billion (budget for both ships) US$10.4 billion (FY2014)

uk aricraft carrier cost - Google Search

So £62 bln for 12 aircraft carriers (big discounts usually available for mass production).

How much for support ships/subs? Don't know, but certainly not 10 times more.

I wouldn't be so sure, given that the EU has an expensive habit of insisting on designing their own versions of solutions which exist elsewhere. Don't forget the planes (the UK bought F35s from the US at around $90m each). The EU would probably want to develop their own aircraft. Ditto for weapons systems. Each carrier would require a large support group, and Ministers in the UK aren't saying what the QE will have in support, although I'd expect somewhere between 10-15 vessels with various capabilities, depending on the operation.
The EU won't be buying British, whatever happens!

[Eirikur]

Maybe this one won't run on windows XP

[AtW]

Who's going to pay for it all (something like $3tn)?

Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier cost is £6.2 billion (budget for both ships) US$10.4 billion (FY2014)

uk aricraft carrier cost - Google Search

So £62 bln for 12 aircraft carriers (big discounts usually available for mass production).

How much for support ships/subs? Don't know, but certainly not 10 times more.

[Mordac]

Why shouldn't EU, which is a block with more citizens than USA, have 10-12 aircraft carrier groups? That would nicely boost force projection

Who's going to pay for it all (something like $3tn)? And who shall we put in charge of it all? I have a suggestion - we could elect (or nominate) a President who would be in charge of everything in Europe, and then we could get rid of individual governments to stop all the bickering. What could possibly go wrong...?

[AtW]

Why shouldn't EU, which is a block with more citizens than USA, have 10-12 aircraft carrier groups? That would nicely boost force projection

[Old Greg]

How much funding has been committed?

[vetran]

maybe they will have planes for it?

“Germany and France are already working together on the project of a European future combat aircraft,” she wrote in an essay in the German newspaper Die Welt (English translation here ). “The next step could be the start of the symbolic project of building a common European aircraft carrier to express the global role of the European Union as a power ensuring security and peace.”
Merkel seemed to endorse the idea. "It's right and good that we have such equipment on the European side, and I'm happy to work on it."

next stop Poland?

[original PM]

Here's A Crazy Idea: A European Union Aircraft Carrier | The National Interest

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