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Old 15th Dec 2017, 01:52
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Originally Posted by KenV
Why? It's one thing to put a few jets on a small ship. It's entirely another to routinely launch and recover them in all weather conditions, and maintain them over a significant deployment period, and arm and fuel them during a shootin' war. For that you need something significantly bigger. Hence QE.
xxxxxxxx.... Running away at the mouth again are we?

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