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Forum: Military Aviation

29th Nov 2010, 16:26

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

Ark Royal?

It should be called "Ark of the Covenant" to celebrate the fact that, by the time the thig is operational, it will almost certainly have been discovered.

Forum: Military Aviation

2nd Nov 2009, 13:07

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

Golden Rules

A "golden rule" eh?

As in F35?, or Nimrod whatever year it's now called?

About the last time we used a well proven engine in a combat aircraft was the Spey in the Bucc, and thanks to...

Forum: Military Aviation

8th Sep 2008, 13:27

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

Sad times

It is truly depressing to see that we are now receiving contributions from our American friends which suggest that they hail from those parts of that country where they do not find it necessary to...

Forum: Military Aviation

9th Oct 2007, 15:35

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

I believe the combat system on T45 etc etc

It will indeed sir, but what can it then do? If the other ship happens to be a T45 then that's ok (apart from the detection range at low altitude problem I've already referred to) But if it's to a...

Forum: Military Aviation

8th Oct 2007, 07:04

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

Ho-Ho!!

Excellent question about T45's Missile engagement zones etc, the answer, as you proabably suspected, is "of course not"
That's often true if you have the proper missilery, which is SM-2 block 4, and...

Forum: Military Aviation

6th Jul 2006, 10:16

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

Fascinating Stuff!

Indeed, Deploy Sustain Recover is presently reasonably well funded, point is the requirements were originally presented for the logistics requirement for supporting over the shore requirements, not...

Forum: Military Aviation

6th Jul 2006, 06:58

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

Agreed, but who knows what the good stuff is,...

Agreed, but who knows what the good stuff is, besides, our American friends are often very reluctant to let us have all the good stuff, like software!.

The Russians however may well be more...

Forum: Military Aviation

6th Jul 2006, 06:52

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

Carriers, Harriers, Schmarriers!

Now there's a thought!, perhaps we NEED an aircraft with [precisely such characteristics, I think, if I was dug in an worried about what was coming over the horizon, I would be rather anxious about...

Forum: Military Aviation

5th Jul 2006, 16:05

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

US is best!!

Ho-Ho-Ho

Now, hands up?, who would rather have a ZSU-23mm to ward off offending aircraft, and who would rather have a "Sergeant York", who would rather have "Stinger" and who "Starstreak", and,...

Forum: Military Aviation

5th Jul 2006, 15:26

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By EP99j

Greetings ! Although a new boy to pprune I...

Greetings !

Although a new boy to pprune I am sadly old enough to have first hand experience of our last generation of flat-tops. Prior to that I'm told that, with destroyer power-plants,...

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