Any takers for Revenge being the fourth?

SW1 Wrote

You are not ever deploying every aircraft you have at a base certainly not this one and certainly not at this point in its service life. Getting 7 deployed will be challenging enough

That is the point. If the squadron is deployed to the Carrier, the Carrier becomes their base.

And persuade BAE to adopt a more favourable (to HMG) pricing for it's Warships, in view of the removal of what, in effect has become a monopoly. Competition does not drive prices up. If competition is harnessed properly, all who deserve to, should benefit.

A Eureka Moment! The USMC beefing it up will mean that there will be more than 7 x F35B involved during trials with QE for Westlant '19. My earlier statement was that we had 9 at Marham. The unspoken part was that it may well be even more than that; at least at times. If a squadron is going to be de...

ArmChairCivvy Wrote

IOC with 12 is still ahead of us

We do actually have 9 at RAF Marham. Are you suggesting that 2 of them are nothing more than Gate Guards already?

Why 7 x F35B?

And whether there are any unpleasant after effects or not.

Exactly because of this conundrum I the reason why I have always believed that we (and NATO) need three x CSGs. Yes we agreed major co-operation with the French, but they then cancelled their second Carrier. If they (the French) also had 2 x CSGs, then between us we might have enough. Can we be cert...

Or maybe even a "3 x sub-type" T31E, reflecting the inadequate numbers of T26 & T45 1. ASW - WIith a larger Hangar, Merlin & ASROC along with Harpoon successor. 2. AAW - With an enhanced Sea-Ceptor Load-out along with Harpoon successor. 3. GP - In it's true meaning a "Jack of ...

Essential

Shame, but if she had, it is more than a possibility that there would have been an awful lot of high-tech "Flies" splattered on that wall.

Maybe we still have a couple of 76mm Oto-Melara Turrets hanging about, maybe with more than enough rounds as well. Then it really would be Game, Ceuta and Match!

How about installing a shore battery and carrying out gunnery practice "within territorial waters" whenever a suitable target appears?

Well, at least she did not "go west"!

Buster, we could do with you now along with your fellow divers and some limpet mines

How much would this "Marinisation" cost? Is that one reason for not doing it? Could a possible second reason for not doing it be that the Chinooks will only be a short term solution to the heavy lift from QEC & Amphibs and that before long we will be looking at the MV22 Osprey for this...

How about the Port side Forward?

Photographer had better hope that he is in a Helicopter then. So maybe, just maybe his pilot could land where the arrow marks the spot

What does the optimist in you think?

I wonder how many F35Bs QEC will need before the sortie rate overtakes that of the Rafale's. :mrgreen: The shame lies squarely on those responsible for the non-arrival of CVA01 and (CVA02 / CVA03). I still strongly believe that a third QEC should have been built (for the RN). A workable solution mig...

What does half a Wildcat look like? and which half?
Just Teasing!

Well spotted! So the 35th was in the air (and taking the picture)

You must mean "Gutter" Press, rather than true investigative journalism then?

Either they are not all on deck, or if they are then there are only 33 on board!

And goodness knows what the Press will make of it, when we supply a squadron of F35B to embark on a US LHD. If the press want to continue to make themselves irrelevant, that is up to them. Let us not lose sight of what is really important, to get the earliest experience of operating with a significa...