Just noticed this on the RN website:
HMS Ark Royal Series to be Shown on Discovery Channel
I wonder if it will show all the different parts of ship involved in flying operations?
Wrathmonk
FB11 sums up my point about HNS. As regards your example of using bases in Kenya - it looks like a long way from Kenya to Yemen, perhaps not so much of an issue for a transport, tanker or ISTAR type, but a long way for Tornado or Typhoon, with issues of overflight, tanker support, and security and logistics issues.
Why do you suggest a carrier is worthless as we could only deploy six to eight jets, when a land based one would consist of the same number of aircraft?
Incidentally, our involvement with Libya may well have started, with HMS
Cumberland being sent to the Libyan coast en route to the SDSR scrapyard.
I expect the meeting of the Defence Management Board will be..........interesting.