And nothing of that is even remotely relevant, as Royal Navy/Army Air Corps does not have a policy of permanently parking its rotorcraft on the deck as the USMC does on the USN ships.

There is no way on earth that a pilot can get an indication that he is being targeted by an IR-guided missile. Also, MANPADS can’t target anything above 20k feet.

So, in this post, you admit that Russia is bankrupt, which basically counters your own argument in a reply you made to me couple of posts above.

If you take that as a measure of a nations economy, then you are a dumbass.

Kinja often behaves erratically, but I’m not sure what are you referring to.

It was actually a double post (because my phone sucks, and so does kinja) so I edited it, but it can also have a meaning (kind of).

That’s not a carrier, it’s a pending environmental disaster.

You mean that Rodina is crazy and broke? Shit is about to hit the fan.

“We are broke, so no more funds”.

Because you are a dumbass.

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Mission accomplished MkII.

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Less capable is not the same as inferior. Cobra is less capable than Apache, but it is not inferior. And this is one of the scenarios where it would be better to employ a simpler, more rugged but less capable system.

No, they are capable of permanent deployments. It is a requirement/modification specific to the UK’s Apache fleet - they even have folding rotor blades. During the Libyan operation, they have been deployed for more than 4 months.

Damn shame. But we can say that its legacy lives in the stealth Blackhawk.

Ideally, you would have both, like F-15 vs F-16, or F-15E vs F-16C.

Danger comes from the saltwater, not water or snow itself. UK’s Westland Apache is specifically modified to allow it operate from carriers, as was done during the Libyan operation.

Again, irrelevant. Helicopters are only concerned with the heat signature.

I think that the whole scenario regarding the terrorists operating a complex system such as Klub, or even having a nuke, is almost ridiculous. First, stuff like that cannot really go unnoticed by the intelligence, and second, it only happens in Hollywood. It is simply a nonexistent threat, and if it actually were to…