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Old 26th Feb 2012, 08:32
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including major technical options such as the kind of catapults it wants to fit to its new aircraft carriers, and what kind of aircraft these ships will finally operate.
Do we have any options regarding type of launch system. I must confess to assuming these carriers would have conventional steam powered propulsion but was soon put right and these ships have possibly stolen the engines from the scrapped Nimrod program!!

In other words they are powered by gas turbines and they do not produce steam that is anywhere near suitable for operating conventional type catapults so what options do we have?
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