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Old 31st Jul 2020, 06:37
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mahogany bob
 
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If - heaven forbid - we are ever forced (even as part of NATO ) to take on an enemy ( China / Russia ??) possessing the latest state of the art surveillance and hypersonic missiles even Sharkey and Dr Marc Cambell-Roddis must agree that it would be foolish to risk our F35B assets on board a highly vulnerable carrier which would not be THAT difficult to locate and sink! Particularly as it would already be tracked by satellites (or a James Bondski tracking device planted on board !?)

If such a situation were to arise our best course of action would be to fly them off ASAP and operate them from a variety of less vulnerable ,heavily disguised ,land locations - just like the Harriers used to!

All our fixed wing 'heavies' should immediately disperse away from their vulnerable main bases to anywhere which would give them a chance of surviving day one - just like the Vulcans used to! One Voyager is already cunningly disguised as a civvy airliner!

This would at least hopefully cause an aggressor to think hard before blackmailing us with the threat of a limited strike and give us the opportunity for a limited response before being forced to bring our nuclear submarine ( doomsday) deterrent into play!

PS The carriers could then have white crosses painted on deck and be used as hospital ships!
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