Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

England’s two new QEII-class aircraft carriers will accommodate jump-launched versions of F-35Bs. But it will be two years before the first squadron becomes operational.

1 posted on 07/11/2018 7:00:41 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: sukhoi-30mki

That is one butt-ugly target, err, I mean boat, err, I mean ship....


2 posted on 07/11/2018 7:05:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: sukhoi-30mki

Isn’t this the platform whose systems use Windows XP? Briliant.


3 posted on 07/11/2018 7:14:25 AM PDT by dirtboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: sukhoi-30mki

Their defense budget is only something on the order of 50 billion pounds annually. Hardly enough to defend their own borders, let alone project power.


8 posted on 07/11/2018 7:39:48 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: sukhoi-30mki

Britain will soon go over to Muslim control. Mayor Khan of London is likely a future Prime Minister. I am not sure that I want their military to have anything that could be a threat to other Western countries.


10 posted on 07/11/2018 7:48:25 AM PDT by Truth29
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: sukhoi-30mki

Why does it need 2 towers?


11 posted on 07/11/2018 8:09:26 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: sukhoi-30mki

That’s a fine looking warship.


17 posted on 07/11/2018 11:47:04 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: sukhoi-30mki
#1 They need to get rid of the extra tower.
The British always like towers.... Also remove the ski jump and angle the deck and add 4 catapults and lengthen the ship and have it capable of doing S turns.

Blnk
How Ford Class Compares Against Queen Elizabeth Class?
Carrier images
HOW FORD CLASS COMPARES AGAINST QUEEN ELIZABETH CLASS?
18 posted on 07/11/2018 7:55:04 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson