Ungland...
Posted on 12/15/2010 4:25:38 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
The Spitfire will make a comeback.
The End.
What are they switching to?
So, what are the Brits flying off of their carriers, these days? Hellcats?
>> So, what are the Brits flying off of their carriers, these days? Hellcats?
Cessna 182s with folding wings.
Funds are tight, don’t you know.
Appeasement
Tornado.
They are switching to nothing in the short term. The RAF will fly Tornadoes and Eurofighters, while the RN will cool their heels for the better part of a decade waiting for the F-35C carrier variant and their second carrier to be built.
Their first carrier that is currently in construction is too far along to be retorfitted with catapult gear, so it will become a helicopter carrier. The second will have EMALS gear. Their first carrier will be retrofitted with EMALS during its first planned overhaul period.
Or so that is their plan.
Better keep ‘em in storage, UK. You’re gonna need them for the upcoming war with the muzzies.
You thinkest that I jest, oh uninformed ones?
Just wait.
Ungland...
Saw a very impressive demonstration by a US Marine variant of this plane just a couple of months back... I had seen video, but never one in person. Pretty amazing pice of machinery. I’m not sure how much longer the US will continue to operate these, but I will tell you this - I wouldn’t want a fully-armed Harrier after me!!!
Prince Harry flew the Harrier off a carrier?
We could not have been more merrier!
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Seriously, there is now no fixed wing aircraft capability.
They are hoping to buy that JSF boondongle from the US.
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I still think the Harrier is/was a remarkable platform.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342535/posts
These brits could easily be selling these to other countries by suggesting the cargo-conversion aircraft carrier approach. Sure it’s cheap & cheesey, but it worked for them in the Falklands.
Another big mistake was cancelling the Supersonic Harrier project, the P.1154 in 1965
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P1154
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