A functioning aircraft carrier certainly would be handy in the case of some rogue nation seizing your embassy, but not that it would ever happen nowadays.... - ummm, err, yeah.
One wonders what the value of writing down history is, if almost everyone is going to ignore the lessons it provides.
Sadly, we’re only a step behind Great Britain. The next couple of years are going to be extremely painful to those of us who knew precisely what they will usher in.
One wonders what the value of writing down history is, if almost everyone is going to ignore the lessons it provides.
Sadly, we’re only a step behind Great Britain. The next couple of years are going to be extremely painful to those of us who know precisely what they will usher in.
so you build an aircraft carrier ,just to mothball it ,sounds like a smart move ,government in action
Perhaps they should have simply paid the U.S. to build one for them.
They seem to forget that when Argentina took the Falklands, the Royal Navy was forced to use cargo container ships as aircraft carriers for their Harrier jets.
I wonder if the “watch-dogs” who advised Queen Elizabeth I warned her that the fireships that initiated the destruction of the Spanish Armada at Gravelines would be too costly to build since they could only be used once....
I wonder if the “watch-dogs” who advised Queen Elizabeth I warned her that the fireships that initiated the destruction of the Spanish Armada at Gravelines would be too costly to build since they could only be used once....
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Twenty years before a catapult-equipped carrier is ready will translate into a fifteen year delay in purchasing F-35Cs.