flatbackpinky said:As the new carriers are going to be conventionally powered it will be irellevant if it gets through has the the right aircraft or needs to be redesigned if we dont have fuel for it and the skill base in the faa to operate / maintain fixed wing aircraft and the correct type and number of escort and support vessels the carrier is only a small part of the cost. If the mod budget had increased in line with the nhs budget which has been squanderd the fleet would be full of carriers to make the yanks floating islands look like driftwood but who needs priperly equiped armed forces wasting all of that money as there is no clear threat to national security and the idiots in uniform will go and do what the great and good tell them regardless of legality and morality and risk of personal death or injury
What you waffling about shipmate, the whole fcuking Navy is in a precarious position. Didn't you know that they are over spent, totally flat bust and can't afford staples? Carrier? Aircraft? For fcuks sakes get with it. Before long the RN will join Belgium and the Congo in becoming a coastal protection consortium. Forget fcuking Navy, that was something from the past.Clouseau said:No.3 – The new CVS is fast approaching Main Gate. Do we think it will get through?
Additional question - Which project is in a more precarious position – the carrier or the aircraft that will fly from it?
Clouseau said:No.3 – The new CVS is fast approaching Main Gate. Do we think it will get through?
Additional question - Which project is in a more precarious position – the carrier or the aircraft that will fly from it?
Dabs said:What you waffling about shipmate, the whole fcuking Navy is in a precarious position. Didn't you know that they are over spent, totally flat bust and can't afford staples? Carrier? Aircraft? For fcuks sakes get with it. Before long the RN will join Belgium and the Congo in becoming a coastal protection consortium. Forget fcuking Navy, that was something from the past.Clouseau said:No.3 – The new CVS is fast approaching Main Gate. Do we think it will get through?
Additional question - Which project is in a more precarious position – the carrier or the aircraft that will fly from it?
dubaipusser said:Clouseau said:No.3 – The new CVS is fast approaching Main Gate. Do we think it will get through?
Additional question - Which project is in a more precarious position – the carrier or the aircraft that will fly from it?
When the new carrier project was first briefed it had the acronym FAC (standing for Future Aircraft Carrier - or so they wanted us to believe).
I am a confident cynic - I fully expect us to get 2 x FAC in a dozen or so years but cannot see the advantage in trying to fly anything off the back of a Fast Attack Craft!!!
silverfox said:They have split the Main gate for the new cariers into 2. Current thinking, as far as I can make out, is that we will get the carriers, but at what cost to the rest of the RN programme. Just look at Eurofighter, and the inmpact that has had on the crabs....
silverfox said:None that I would want to be quoted on - but we have the DPA/DEC guys down in a few weeks to lecture the next course - will post an update then. Will also include T45s/ASTUTE/JCA etc and anything else interesting
silverfox said:affirmative..