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Old 18th December 2006 | 21:01
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Jackonicko
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From: Just behind the back of beyond....
There haven't been many recently, certainly, but then there haven't been many programmes, full stop.

But Typhoon would not be "be the first successful CV adaptation of a CTOL jet in the West."

We still have the Sea Venom, the FJ-3 Fury, the Sea Vixen (DH110), and the T-45 to count (forgetting the various Sea Vampires, T-33s and their ilk), even if we allow that the F/A-18 is more than an adaptation.

As to the Su-33K, it's a minimum change navalised 'Flanker-B' with astonishingly few changes (folding on exactly the same wing, a beefed up gear, folding tailplanes and a hook), while the MiG-29K designation has been applied to two different aircraft, one a minimum change adaptation of the land-based MiG-29M (with a new landing gear and new tailplanes and an all-new wing)and the other one now being built for India.
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