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So there it is: done. As this is written, defence minister Phillip Hammond is on his feet in the House of Commons, trying to justify the fact that he and his boss, David Cameron, have decided that the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier (maybe carriers) will not now have any catapults or arrester gear in order to save money. This …

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  1. Magnus_Pym
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    Cloudbase - obviously

    What we need is a huge LEMV held constantly in the upper atmosphere. with a runway on the top. No need to 'launch' the planes, just drop them off the end to gain airspeed in the fall. Only needs a trap then and as a bonus the pilot is much further away from the sea when the trap fails.

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  2. Carl
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    BAe Lobbyst

    I once met a professional BAe lobbyist at a party.

    He was everything you would expect and much much less.

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  3. cortezcortez

    Scrap the RAF

    There is a partial solution to this problem. High time the RAF was put to sleep and divided up between the Army and the Navy.

    What's it for? They haven't shot down a plane in 70 years and they couldn't even close the runway at Stanley while the FAA were busy shooting down the enemy's planes.

    Closing it will save billions, halve the amount of high-grade desk-jockey officers in MoD, and prepare our forces for the century which started over a decade ago.

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