Was going to give Jacko's post the savaging it deserves, but note it's already been done by GK121.
Would also add that to the best of my knowledge none of the Sea Hornet / Sea Venom / DH110 alleged land-based progenitors ever had an extensive service career. Funnily enough, the Fury didn't last long on ships either, although obviously a very succesful land-based fighter.
As for EF2000N - I don't think anyone who saw those studies believed what BAe were saying - it was a clear attempt to knock JSF off the options plot, as became clear when people started getting into the detail of what it would need to do aboard ship.IIRC the aircraft was not fitted with nose-tow and was STOBAR only, making it by far the worst for deck ops and sortie generation.
All that said, the OCA/DCA abilities of Dave do not engender confidence.....
Last edited by Not_a_boffin; 9th December 2006 at 13:05.