It looked like the CAA were pretty much distancing themselves from doing anything straight away. A complaint has been made by an idiot member of the public, but they seem to be doing the old ‘we’re going to investigate, then in a week or two when everyone has forgotten we’ll drop it like a hot potato.’

To be fair it was over Lincolnshire. The worst thing that could have happened is they crashed wiping out a field of Brussels sprouts and killing a couple of inbreds on the ground...

Did you forget to add ‘in the middle east’.

Mexico, Portugal, Poland....wtf?

That US Admiral has to try and big up the Russian threat in order to protect the fleet of US SSN’s. But the facts don’t lie. The Yasen’s design work commenced in 1977. For the mathematically challenged that’s 38 years ago. Even then the Russians were massively behind the West. And they’ve had 2 decades of stagnation…

All Western aircraft since the mid-70’s have had Martin Baker zero-zero ejector seats inside them. They’re safe to be used at zero altitude and zero speed (you can eject from them whilst stationary on the ground). There are restrictions on ejecting whilst inverted at extremely low level though.

Luckily we don’t, but in many ways that is an illustration of America’s strength and tolerance.

Unfortuantely I don’t need to do a lot of reading to see what you’ve got wrong...

Whats the slippage in the Programme? Trying to set up production is a long way from actually in production. They can’t afford any slippage in their building programme, otherwise the Russian Navy will continue to shed hulls.

She refused to go to the breakers yard and slipped her tow....

Didn’t mistake you at all. Just showing the same story on the other side of the Atlantic with a legendary warship.

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…