Britain and France Build Robocarrier

strategy page ^ | March 9, 2006

[spetznaz]

You are most welcome. My point was simply that this deal is nowhere near as bad as some are making it out to be. Especially once one considers the probable alternatives (i.e. costs restrictions by rabid Libs in their respective parliaments), plus the fact that the ships will meet (and exceed) the requirements put upon them by the two navies.

[hosepipe]

[ Britain and France Build Robocarrier ]

Hmmm a Frogohauler.. sounds like a Rube Goldberg Surrender device to me..

[lepton]

So call me an idiot, but aren't we going towards more UAVs and less pilots? Isn't this like building a better catapult, when the other side is pondering explosives?

My comment wasn't referring to the manning issue. It was referring to the carrier not really even being a carrier such as we think of, since the total number of craft it carries is so low.

[grey_whiskers]

Take Britain for example .....during the Falklands war the UK was able to reach out 8,000 miles away, and win with just two carriers (the Hermes and the Invincible)

I'm not even going to tell you what I misread the names of those Brit carriers as...

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

The planes on the carriers will be the new Anglo-French code-named lâche/citron-vert:

and the light bomber, the cible-victime (currently code named the H5N1)

Both planes are extremely light and take up little space, which is one of the reasons that the carrier(s) can be built so easily.

Cheers!