UK's Most Expensive Aircraft Carrier Needs Repair

HMS Queen Elizabeth has less than one month of use

Less than a month after entering service, the new British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is leaking and will need repairs.

The failure of the largest and most expensive ship ever built by the UK was discovered during some tests at sea, British newspaper The Sun reported.

The 65,000-tonne and 280-meter ship was letting about 200 liters of water leak every hour, and its repair cost millions of pounds.

"The repair is already underway in Portsmouth, but it does not prevent the ship from sailing again and this will have no impact on its missions," a Navy spokesman said.

The aircraft carrier cost the British coffers 3.1 billion pounds (about $ 13.6 billion) and took eight years to complete. The ship began operations on December 7 and will undergo several tests.

Even though the warship is the most advanced in the country, it is receiving a number of criticisms. One is because some computers in the control center of the vessel are using the Windows XP operating system