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Old 5th Apr 2010, 07:38
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Okay - but I don't think I quite understand why the carrier version would be more expensive: Granted it must have a strengthened fuselage/U/C etc., but it doesn't have the very expensive engine vectoring or fan. Also, I accept that it may be later - but why? Is it necessarily so? I haven't seen an American list of priority deliveries although I assume there is one. However given that it is later - and given our present government's habit of putting things off to avoid immediate outgoings - may the later dater be more appropriate. One assumes that adding the ski jump and catapult would add time to the carrier build anyway.
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