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Old 27th Jun 2012, 18:10
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glojo
 
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Originally Posted by White Overalls
When given a choice between 1 ship with Cats and Traps and F-35C in 2023ish or 2 ships with F-35B in 2018ish then of course 1SL is going to go for the second option. There's a lot of elements to a carrier apart from the CAG, and nearly all of them involve RN manpower.
Hi,
Do you think we will have two operational ships with air wings by 2018-ish or even 2022 -ish? I would like to think you are right but that date is not that far off and so far all we read in our papers is doom followed by gloom regarding the aircraft!

Fingers crossed
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