I hear Illustrious is off to the Indian Ocean and will be exercising with Viraat and her Shars. Who gets the upper hand in air combat GR9 or FRS.51 ?
Wrt to Webf's point about maintaining some Shars in storage/reserve, I would look at the other two branches of the armed forces. When the number of armoured regiments was reduced, 150 Challengers were put in to storage. When the F3 fleet was cut to ribbons their flying Routemasters were put into storage. The same could be done for the Shar given the political will.
Last edited by Navaleye; 12th February 2006 at 12:00.