Posted on 09/29/2018 1:07:45 PM PDT by SleeperCatcher
It should be noted that the UK retired, and then decided to build, two carriers about the same time that Russian aggression was picking up again following Moscow’s short 2008 invasion of Georgia.
Speaking of Russia, the Kremlin’s navy has only one carrier, the aged Admiral Kuznetsov, which was launched in 1985 and which just finished a refit this year and a combat deployment to Syria. While there supporting Russian operations, the ship struggled to remain operational and reports claimed that at least two fighters were lost.
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NATO deterrent? And who exactly is NATO trying to deter? Izlamophobes? Right wing Christians?
I figured it out! NATO must be trying to deter Tommy Robinson!
That reminds me...
Whatever happened to NATO HQ’s letter demanding an FBI investigation of Kavanaugh?
“Whatever happened to NATO HQ’s letter demanding an FBI investigation of Kavanaugh”
Senator frankenswine’s staff is sitting on it til the week after next.
And here I was hoping that we had a secret MAGA man in NATO HQ’s clerk shop playing interference.
“Senator frankenswine’s staff is sitting on it til the week after next.”
They couldn’t really find it because her Chicom driver swiped it and sent it off to Beijing.
The Russians boat’s black smoke stack is visible miles away. They obviously do not care much for Aircraft Carriers as they instead have invested in self sustaining nuclear powered polar icebreakers. They have about 40 of them while we only have one
Boeing’s T-X is a quieter but much more exciting craft than the F-35B. We are talking about a light fighter possibility with up to 2-1 thrust ratio.
The F35 has only one engine to the F15’s 2 engines yet weighs more. I have no idea what they did to make it so heavy.
element 115 will make all that obsolete. jet engines? lol, thats soo last century.
Welcome to FR.
5.56mm
thanks pal
VERTOL. It's a hideously expensive proposition, both in terms of engineering compromises and power required. Blame the Marines, it was their idea.
How many North African Migrants can the Queen Elizabeth carry to Englandstan?
Answer: As many as it takes to get rid of those ‘uncouth’ Englishmen.
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