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Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales Has No Realistic Way to Defend Itself The 65,000-ton aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales is 932 feet long and can carry up to 36 F-35B Lightning IIs, but it has no medium- or long-range surface-to-air missile system of its own, only three Phalanx 20mm close-in weapon systems and smaller guns. Its protection depends on the Royal Navy’s six Type 45 destroyers and their Sea Viper missiles, which maintenance backlogs and crewing shortfalls rarely make available in numbers
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