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Old 5th Jul 2014, 05:56
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Rakshasa
 
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500N, Honestly?

A better carrier than CVS.... In fact I'd add; as good as if not better carrier than CdeG and very likely a better carrier than Vikrant, Kuznetsov, Sao Paolo and Liaoning.

It it as good as a CVN? lol no.

As for what the air group will do? That'll depend on the politicians and the money. If the Dave by some unlikely possibility, never enters service, we could (and it'll likely be PoW only) convert it to EMALS and buy Super Bugs. Yes that will be expensive but the cost will be partly off set buy the saving from buying cheaper aircraft. We'd still only have a 70 a/c strong Bug fleet though and still never put more than a dozen to sea for routine deployments.
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