This bring us to the 30ish F35 between the three platforms, You're only buying 30 F-35B overall so that's a garbage line of reasoning. You're not likely to get much beyond 18 operational at any time, personally I think that's a fair guess. Not accepting that reality makes it obvious there's not muc...

Taking this in consideration the F-35 operable from the Cavour should be between 10-12 and obviously less than 24 . Which isn't a bad capability, but i'd sooner have 2 QEC than 3 Cavour. This reminds me of an article Spazsinbad posted back in 2013 on f-16.net An Italian Rear Admiral stated that Cav...

Sorry for the late answer but just now i got the time. About the discussion on the RAN LHD and RN about how many F-35 could fill the LHD. Someone wrote the Cavour could operate 9Harriers. Wrong it was the Garibaldi during Afghanistan, it operated 9 harriers and 5 helos. The Cavour at the words of th...

We are going to enter their waters, as asked by the ONU recognized government, if Haftar attacks it would be playing in our favor, it would mean that his supporters (France/Russia/Egypt) cant internationally support him anymore since they would be openly opposing the ONU government. So from a certai...

Just curious do you also have NGOs in the UK that completely disdein goverment rules and sovereignty? Well, it's the Government's fault, because they don't have the guts to enforce the laws and shut down such "NGOs"... So, if your navy can't even stop the migrants in rubber dhingies, why ...

Looks like it was all set for the German ONG ship to fell in the "trap" The prosecutor already had 140 pages of evidence on them. Lets see what happens with the bigger ships, like MSF that didnt sign the chart imposed by the government. I imagine we will use our lovely burocracy against th...

This is the nice part of the forums, there is too much info out there, soo pooling is the best. Thanks for the info !

For that reason they got the independence of their Sales and R&D. Plus remember we cant build ships of their tonnage, that would mean that you can move production from Italy to France but not vice versa, they are in competition with Meyer and their Finnish shipyards that also reach the 200k tons...

Im a Lurker the fact i already want to read your opinion should give an hint that im quite rational, specially because being a stockholder i try to be dead objective with my investments, getting emotional is the worst thing to do in the markets. So yes i would like to understand why the first deal w...

Hi, sorry if this is my first post and that it looks quite direct, I'm a forum lurker after all :D if you don't have anything smart to write don't write no? I wanted to ask, anyone could advice me a french defense forum? i was interested in reading in french what they are saying about the STX/Fincan...