Originally Posted by
Rhino power
The B does answer naval requirements (allegedly...), just not the USN's, who still use conventional cat and trap carriers so they have no need of the B, which is why the C is tailored to their needs, the B is tailored to (at the time the design was laid down) the Royal Navy and USMC's needs, pretty simple to understand really...
-RP
It's very simple to understand depending on which way you read the bungling approach to procurement. I did say, that the B meets the original requirement for not just the RN, but the RAF, as a Harrier Battlefield Support aircraft. As a medium to long range Interdictor and, frankly, anything else, it is well short of what we could have had. There is one other reason for reversing the reversal of the 2010 SDSR, apart from BAE Systems' demand for remunerative compensation to redesign the Carriers with cats and traps, and that is the curious British fixation with jumping jets. After all we designed and built them! Didn't we!?
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