Here's drone footage of the most powerful aircraft carrier ever built for the UK

Great Britain once had the most powerful Navy in the world, but
since 2010, they haven't had a single aircraft carrier.

That changed earlier this week.

The HMS Queen Elizabeth — the largest and most powerful carrier
the Royal Navy has ever built — set sail on
Monday for the first time.

With a price tag of about $3.8 billion, it's also Britain's
most expensive ship ever built. Still, the juice might be
worth the squeeze.

"I think there are very few capabilities, by any country, that
are as symbolic as a carrier strike capability," commanding
officer Captain Jerry Kyd told reporters on Monday. "These are
visible symbols of power and power projection."

Manned by a crew of 1,000 sailors, the ship is 919-feet
long, weighs 65,000 tons and can hold 40 jets.