The CG personnel the RN were after (and whom the CG seemed very keen to facilitate) were specifically for the T45’s which due to the utterly dumb SDSR in 2010 had lost some key engineering personnel who had taken the large redundancy packages offered and gone to work in the civilian world for double the money. Oddly,…

Duncan Sandys in 1957 was worse. And John Notts review in 1981 was almost as bad, but the Falklands saved the Navy.

Not really. For decades it was the US and USSR as superpowers. The UK was a second rate power through the cold war. But we’ve got more military capacity than most other nations, in particular it’s highly trained, well equipped and can be deployed plus the 5th largest economy in the world with a population of a paltry…

Down low there isn’t much that can outrun a Harrier. Tornado will, but a Harrier will outrun an F-16 or F-18 down low. Most combat aircraft rarely if ever go supersonic. External stores usually preclude that, plus having to use afterburner. The Harriers seemingly low top speed is very rarely an operational problem.

The RN uses a different method of operating carriers to the USN and have never been keen on large deck parks. The QE class flight deck is only slightly smaller than a Nimitz class in area. Hanger size is roughly the same. They could carry more than 40 even though the F-35 is a big jet. As numbers go over 55 aircraft…

The first Akula’s came into service over 10 years after the first Los-Angeles class. There were 34 Los Angeles class in service when the FIRST Akula came into service. The first improved Los Angeles class were finishing construction at the time and 5 Trafalgar class (that are quieter than the 668I boats were in…

Apart from the ones with satellites, embassies and the like...

Borei class is almost as dismal as the Yasen. 1980’s design, laid down in 1996, commissioned in 2013. 17 years later....with a rather unreliable missile...

France and Britain on that list?

Do they buy them...?

Pretty certain the BMP and Marder got there a little earlier...

125 mile against a transport aircraft.

Are they building better quality?

You missed the bit abput always having a tug nearby...

I know. It’s as if people don’t understand how the lights stay on in Damascus and Latakia......Assad has bought most of the ISIS oil and gas since they seized the fields. Which illustrates how incompetent the regime is in the first place when they lost Palmyra. As well as bombing the tanker trucks (and does anyone…

You could create a carrier body around a Storm Shadow type body with multiple Spear 3 inside in the next 4 years. Weight wise you could squeeze 8 in no problem.

You know the earth is round don’t you....

Wow...so what CAD package did they use in the late 1960’s.....

It could anlu be better with a Vigilante and Buccaneer in shot.....perhaps a Traver and Gannet...down low of course...

There is Rafale and Typhoon present...