After the brief VLS question, the modern-hull concept remains about 4,000 tons overweight with a severe fore-and-aft imbalance. Speed, armour, and other choices are cut, but the growing list of compromises threatens the design's purpose. By the final minutes, the aft end is still much heavier than intended and the cause cannot be resolved during the stream. The unfinished class is deleted for another restart rather than forced into production.
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Weight and trim defeat the second Queen Elizabeth design
The modern-hull restart remains thousands of tons overweight and badly unbalanced, so further cuts produce too many compromises and the unfinished class is deleted.