Reply to post: Re: "the cost of retrofitting was about the same as building another carrier!!"

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SkippyBing

Re: "the cost of retrofitting was about the same as building another carrier!!"

'The US offered to fund the fitting of EMALs/CATOBAR to our QE's in exchange for shared use of said resources'

They may have done, but it was still going to cost £2 Billion to modify the rest of the carrier, so after about 18 months of saying we were going to buy the C we went back to the B on the grounds that way we'd end up with twice as many carriers for the money.

' the better solution would have been to join the proposed naval Gripen project'

Your saying the better solution would have been to go for something that doesn't exist?

'Typhoon - which is too small for the RAF as a bomb truck because of original French requirements to build a carrier variant'

Patently isn't based on it being able to carry more Paveways than a Tornado, and the original French requirement resulting in the Rafale which is notably smaller than the Typhoon because once they'd left the programme there was no need to stick to their requirement.

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