And this is what you could have won....

I feel for the Canadians, I really do. They used to be joint top at ASW with the RN. Now with the poor state of their Sea Kings and Halifax Class they’ve slipped a long way down. Smaller nations need those niche capabilities, it’s goig to take them decades to get back.

RAF Tornado’s, Jags and Harriers all have/had similar installations.

And only occasionally fly’s...... (based on it having the lowest mission availability of any USAF aircraft)

All Canadian in service weapons that fit on the F-18 could fit on either the Eurofighter. Some are integrated already (Sidewinder, AMRAAM, Paveway) but some would require additional integration. But that would be a retrograde step, it would be better, and in many respects cheaper, to upgrade to some new generation…

Super Hornet is a shoo in for this alone....and Boeing is desperate.

You must be joking. Neither the Canadians or British want anything to do with each other in defence procurement. EH-101 put paid to that, chuck in the Upholder Class (which contrary to popular belief was mainly due to Canadian Defence procurement problems) and I bet BAe ask for many up front before even bidding......

In all seriousness could the USN man them now, not just in numbers but who is trained to operate the guns, powerplant and other machinery? Are there any live shells left, barrels, or capability to make them now? What about propellant?

The Bismarck’s citadel was comprehensively wrecked. She was ablaze from stem to stern. But her hull remained sound. Ultimately if you want to sink any ship, you’ve got to let water in. Torpedos have always been the ultimate killer, most battleships sunk by gunnery have either been very very unlucky, massively…

HMS Warspite went down fighting to the end...

There was a campaign to save the greatest battleship of all time, HMS Warspite, but sadly it failed. She saw more action than the entire Iowa class combined.....even the USS Enterprise compared to Warspite led a fairly peaceful existence.

Here’s how it’s really done....

HMS Warrior still exists as well...

Hasakah is full of kurds. They gave ISIS a beating there recently.

The Express many years ago was a reasonably serious newspaper (even if it was still a scandal sheet). It’s now owned by the utterly dreadful Richard Desmond. He’s cut the journalists to the bone so there is pretty much no news desk anymore, essentially they re-print info from other sources. It’s not considered a…

Errr ok......... Do you not think there would be better ways of doing that than strapping it in the cockpit of an attack aircraft in the pilots line of vision?

Not any more...all of their marine turbines were built in the Ukraine...!!!

It has been a commonly accepted truth for most anaysts for a long time that the Pakistanis didn’t build the bomb on their own. It was financed by the Saudi’s as the first ‘Islamic’ bomb. The generally held understanding is that the Saudi’s financed the Pakistani bomb on the understanding that should Iran develop…

I think WierdFish has got the heat issues from the issues encountered on recovery to the carrier. When the aircraft lands the engine exhaust does generate a massive amount of heat. The Thermion coatings should help with this. The Royal Navy will also only land F-35B vertically very rarely. In the main they’ll be using…

70,000 tons is monstrous in my book.