To: Travis McGee
It’s not the ships. It’s the men.
14 posted on
02/02/2009 6:55:43 PM PST by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: AppyPappy
It’s not the ships. It’s the men.
It's the carrier-based organic air cover.
The deciding capability that allowed Thatcher to retake the Falklands were the radar-equipped Sea Harrier FR.1s based aboard Invincible and Hermes. With the retirement of the Shar FA.2s (which carried AIM-120s and were amongst the most effective fighters on the planet) the RN carrier fleet now lacks that capability completely, sharing non-radar Harrier GR.7s and .9s with the RAF. There are no plans, zero, to upgrade some of the RAF/RN Joint Force Harrier Harriers with radar, as with some of their AV-8B cousins in service with the USMC, Spanish and Italian Navy air arms.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson