[Yo-Yo]

No Harriers, switching from the F-35B to the F-35C, and no EMALS yet ready for prime time means no carrier aircraft operations until 2020 at the earliest.

I wonder how long before they decide for budget reasons that the second carrier, the one slated to be the first with cats, gets scrapped all together, and the first carrier doesn't get retrofit with cats, making the purchase of F-35Cs also moot.

I guess A.A. was right. The RAF screwed the Navy. Or the way I read it, Number 10 Downing screwed the Navy.

[american_ranger]

Say goodbye to the Falklands.

You heard it here first.

[Smokin' Joe]

How about helicopters? Not the force projection the jets would allow, but something.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Damn right I was right and you were wrong.

[rabidralph]

the one slated to be the first with cats

(Hoping that someone will photoshop some felines landing on an aircraft carrier.) So the Brits have never had anything other than harriers or helos on their carriers? And they don't know how to cat and trap? Who's going to train them?