Russian TV falls for April Fool’s spoof about new aircraft carrier with ‘go-faster’ stripes named HMS Prince Andrew

RUSSIAN state TV fell for an April Fool’s story about a new aircraft carrier named HMS Prince Andrew. 

Broadcaster Russia Today published claims that Britain was buying a trillion-pound super carrier armed with “infinity jets” and crayons. 

HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers in Portsmouth.
The real carriers, HMS Prince of Wales, left, sails next to HMS Queen ElizabethCredit: The Times
Screenshot of an RT article reporting that Britain will expand its navy due to a perceived Russian threat.
The report on the Russian state TV company website

The spoof was originally published the specialist website the UK Defence Journal alongside a joke about inflatable warships. 

The story was peppered with clues it was fake including the author’s name, Avril Fuller, a twist on April Fool. 

The parody suggested that the new super-carrier’s cost would be an astonishing £987.6 billion, which is nearly 20 times the MoD budget and over 300 times more than any other surface ships ever constructed for the Royal Navy.

It claimed the ship would have have go-faster stripes and extra crayons to speed up planning. 

But the jokes were lost on Moscow as state broadcaster RT ran the article under the headline “Britain to expand navy due to Russian ‘threat’.” 

Additionally, the satire mentioned that: “Prince Andrew is expected to stretch 480 meters in length and will have the capacity to deploy an estimated infinity-hundred aircraft — providing it with a theoretical advantage over any existing or imaginary carrier fleet.”

The editor of the site, George Allison, informed The Sun: “As part of our annual April Fools’ Day custom, we released a clearly satirical article about a non-existent third aircraft carrier – HMS Prince Andrew – featuring ludicrous details like go-faster stripes and crayons.

“It was meant to be obviously fake, and it was written to make people laugh.” 

He added: “A Russian state media outlet picked up the story and presented it as real.

“It’s easy to laugh, but it also points to something important: how easily disinformation can spread.” 

Royal Navy recruitment is so low that defence bosses are taking ‘TWO warships out of action’

The Royal Navy’s real aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are the largest and most expensive surface ships ever built for UK forces. 

They are 280 metres long and cost £3.2billion each. 

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