The theory requires Britain to hide the loss of an entire carrier crew, silence their families and reporters, construct a replacement carrier in secret, and pass it off as the original. Even a small carrier takes years to build, and the government expenditure and industrial footprint would be impossible to conceal. The claim fails both human and shipbuilding reality.
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Why the secret loss of HMS Invincible is impossible
A historiographic aside tests the claim that Invincible sank in 1982 against the time, labor, money, casualties, and public evidence that a replacement conspiracy would require.