If this is has any 'truth,' I will be very disappointed that an aircraft that entered service in 1972, even if packing Sea Eagle missiles, managed to 'sink' an American carrier. That means we may have to bend over and kiss the inevitable triumph of Iran and their ragheaded muzzie allies!
Perhaps you may be able to get over it, Bender, if you think about how little airframes mean as the electronix take over. A warplane ain’t nothin’ but a weapons platform. Missiles, radar, commo, infared, countermeasures, processing power, that’s what matters.
Who knows how realistic all this was in the first place or what was the scenario being played out.The Jag maybe old but it can fly at very low altitudes.You’d need scores of Sea Eagles to even get a chance of hitting a US carrier-let alone hit it.