Islamic State: Charles de Gaulle carrier triples French firepower
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Islamic State: Charles de Gaulle carrier triples French firepower
Interesting article/video on the Beeb website. Have successfully resisted the temptation to state the obvious... (from a UK perspective).
Intersting vid - apart from a couple of minor points, it was a good report too. Nice hardware. I wonder when Britain might be able to field something like that: AWACS, air-to-air, strike, helos. Vive la France!
I found the France's one and only aircraft carrier, a bit snide:
its one more than we have, or are likely to have!
Thank God for the Silent Service. If only they could fly off a decent little multi-role modernised Folland Gnat [and recover it] what a game-changer that would be.
its one more than we have, or are likely to have!
Thank God for the Silent Service. If only they could fly off a decent little multi-role modernised Folland Gnat [and recover it] what a game-changer that would be.
LL and CM
Can't see the video through the local firewalls, but I've said it before - and I'll say it again, the French seem to get a lot of bangfor their euro.
In addition to their CV borne capabilities, elsewhere they also already get:
CSAR
BMD/SAM
MRA
something approaching what FRES should have given us
arguably, a wider range of RW and FW AT
a national capability to launch comms and surveillance satellites
and I'm sure there are other capabilities too.
Regards
Batco
Can't see the video through the local firewalls, but I've said it before - and I'll say it again, the French seem to get a lot of bangfor their euro.
In addition to their CV borne capabilities, elsewhere they also already get:
CSAR
BMD/SAM
MRA
something approaching what FRES should have given us
arguably, a wider range of RW and FW AT
a national capability to launch comms and surveillance satellites
and I'm sure there are other capabilities too.
Regards
Batco
I found the France's one and only aircraft carrier, a bit snide:
its one more than we have, or are likely to have!
Thank God for the Silent Service. If only they could fly off a decent little multi-role modernised Folland Gnat [and recover it] what a game-changer that would be.
its one more than we have, or are likely to have!
Thank God for the Silent Service. If only they could fly off a decent little multi-role modernised Folland Gnat [and recover it] what a game-changer that would be.
CG
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Ahh... all those Billions of Pounds tied up in the state of the art equipment to take on a bunch of so called Amateurs armed with £260 AK47's and £500 RPG's who have managed to take over significant portions of at least two countries who were armed with some of the best the West ( and East ) could provide.
It reminds me of the image of Millions of Pounds worth of British armoured vehicles reduced to lining up behind some chap walking down the road with a couple of hundreds Pounds worth of Metal detector looking for a £50 IED
Something wrong there.
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It reminds me of the image of Millions of Pounds worth of British armoured vehicles reduced to lining up behind some chap walking down the road with a couple of hundreds Pounds worth of Metal detector looking for a £50 IED
Something wrong there.
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Nuttie
Certainly food for thought in your comments. But the millions of pounds worth of kit to find a 50 quid IED is not the end of the story. The point is that it costs that much to protect our people while finding/neutralising the IED IN ORDER FOR the population to be protected: if there were a cheaper way to deal with said IED, I'm sure we'd take it.
Regards
Batco
Certainly food for thought in your comments. But the millions of pounds worth of kit to find a 50 quid IED is not the end of the story. The point is that it costs that much to protect our people while finding/neutralising the IED IN ORDER FOR the population to be protected: if there were a cheaper way to deal with said IED, I'm sure we'd take it.
Regards
Batco
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I've just finished reading "Wings on my Sleeve", and there is quite a bit about the proposed CVA-01, to replace Eagle and Ark Royal by the mid-sixties. As with so many things military, it just never happened.
Herod,
Oh no...don't mention CVA-01 or the usual tribe will invade this thread with the usual complaints of "moving Australia" by the beastly crabs.....conveniently forgetting that dreadful RN Staffwork & hubris were larger factors....
Well done France; one comment though - they do have a lot of RW but they lack anything that can do heavy lift.....for now.
Oh no...don't mention CVA-01 or the usual tribe will invade this thread with the usual complaints of "moving Australia" by the beastly crabs.....conveniently forgetting that dreadful RN Staffwork & hubris were larger factors....
Well done France; one comment though - they do have a lot of RW but they lack anything that can do heavy lift.....for now.
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I have to say; I would have liked our aircraft carriers to have been nuclear powered, angled deck, cat & trap type proper carriers too!
How come we always end up with second best?
How come we always end up with second best?
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HMRC told me I have no option as my RAF and MOD Pensions must be taxed in UK. As a retread singlie my French Income Tax plus Social Taxes would be higher!
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By insisting BAe Systems buils it?
RogHead, long time Flt Ops test aircrew and grateful recipient of a BAE pension.