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To: sukhoi-30mki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIKtNzvIlc


3 posted on 02/21/2011 2:05:47 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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SUKHOI-30mki: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIKtNzvIlc"

Interesting...
So Spain built one Juan Carlos LHD hull for itself and two more for Australia.
France has two Mistral class LHDs, five more planned, including one for Russia?
China & India are both working with old Russian carriers.
The Japanese have a new, smaller, helicopter carrier, not LHD -- Hyuga.
The Brits keep talking about new super-carriers, but how did President Kennedy say it? If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
So, no telling where the Brits will end up...

I wonder which other countries are getting into LHD / carriers, and if that says less about a perceived decline in US naval power than it does about an potential increase in the need to land their marines on foreign shores?

Which shores?

10 posted on 02/23/2011 2:26:58 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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