I thought most of the assistance was from the Italians.

It’s been tried many times before and each time has been an absolute stinker. You end up with a jack of all trades master of none.

it has a flight deck only marginally smaller than a Nimitz class and a very large hanger. Realistically though, a bigger air group than 36 F-35 and 8 Merlins could be accommodated but would after an initial burst lead to a loss in efficiency.

Better not fly in a Boeing or Airbus then...they’re full of British electronics, come to think of it so are F-16’s and F-35’s....

Not sure what you mean by the QE class are far slower. Top speed of a Nimitz is about 31 knots max (they’re slower than the Forrestal class). Don’t believe the Red Storm Rising nonsense about them hitting 40 knots, its absolute rubbish. HMS Queen Elizabeth or Prince of Wales are yet to go to sea, but the MoD has…

The Chakri Nareubet has some old ex Spanish Navy AV-8’s (and god knows how few of them are servieceable) and leaves port at most for 1 day per month, most of the time shes tied up.

I think Tyler is suggesting buying the design off the UK. The QE class are built in blocks so a lot more US yards could compete for work as well as Newport News. Smaller nuclear subs don’t come cheaper unfortunately, the French learnt that lesson with the Rubis class. There is a reason why everyone goes bigger when…

The UK spends 2% of GDP on defence and is buying 2 carriers. They can look after themselves. The Swedes used to be tooled up to the nines, but have definitely slipped back. The good news is, is that Putin is focusing some minds at present in NATO.

If a customer chooses Rolls Royce engines on an Airbus over 55% of the content by value is from the UK. The UK aviation industry is massive still and is in rude health.

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.