This why a good number of aircraft need to be on board during its first op else it’ll be a PR disaster.inch wrote:Aye you got to give it to the French c dear Gaulle be a long time before we can field 30 uk f35 on our carriers if ever how things tend to pan out and the French been doing it all thru the lean yrs with our invincible/ocean class harrier combo .think the rn we're looking across the channel with great envy when c de Gaulle was built and launched only now yrs later are we getting the qe class and still yrs off before we at c de Gaulle capability ,so fair play to the French on that score
When we can do it on our own IMO there’d need to be at least 20-24 F35Bs when ever deployed for us to not look like a joke, HMG and the MOD need to make this perfectly clear to the RAF