To: snowrip
What are they switching to?
4 posted on
12/15/2010 4:50:06 AM PST by
Pikachu_Dad
(Impeach Sen Quinn)
To: Pikachu_Dad
7 posted on
12/15/2010 4:59:25 AM PST by
MCF
To: Pikachu_Dad
8 posted on
12/15/2010 5:00:31 AM PST by
snowrip
(Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
To: Pikachu_Dad
What are they switching to? They are switching to nothing in the short term. The RAF will fly Tornadoes and Eurofighters, while the RN will cool their heels for the better part of a decade waiting for the F-35C carrier variant and their second carrier to be built.
Their first carrier that is currently in construction is too far along to be retorfitted with catapult gear, so it will become a helicopter carrier. The second will have EMALS gear. Their first carrier will be retrofitted with EMALS during its first planned overhaul period.
Or so that is their plan.
9 posted on
12/15/2010 5:01:29 AM PST by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Pikachu_Dad; MCF; snowrip
They are hoping to buy that JSF boondongle from the US.
16 posted on
12/15/2010 8:46:29 AM PST by
Vanders9
To: Pikachu_Dad
What are they switching to?
USMC AV-8Bs. Piloted by US Marines.
Seriously. There have been a number of cross-decking operations in the last year or two with USMC Harriers and the RN Invincible CVLs (and at least one with V-22s). The Brits don't expect that, until the QE-class CVs enter service, they'll need to operate fixed-wing aircraft off their own carrier (singular now, since Ark is going away with the GR.9s) except in joint US/Anglo operations where Marine Harriers can be embarked.
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