Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers

[Guest Awesome Kong]

What are your opinions on their and the Harrier's retirement?

I know that we will have two new carriers in ten years but that leaves a 10 year gap without carriers. If they are not needed in that ten years then what is the point in having two new carriers anyway?

Also, the Harrier aging and our lack of ability to create our own aircraft marks how weak this country is in the 21st century, am I right?

Discuss.

[Frank.]

The ark royals up for sale, if i had the funds i would buy it, park it in docklands somewhere and turn it into the biggest baddest rave venue/brothel.

Would be emosh.

[Skola]

tbh i have no opinion on this

[Guest Fat Eric]

Love this stuff

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what type of engineering did you do in uni doc

[Guest 11 Bills]

what I wanna know is why the f*ck have we started a war firing like £100m worth of bombs when coucils are cutting back services n sh*t

[Guest Awesome Kong]

Aerospace

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11 Bills, They "claim" to have a "pot" for wars

[Beavis]

tbh i have no opinion on this

[e7overload]

11 Bills, They "claim" to have a "pot" for wars

that is actually pretty f*cked up, they have a death pot to dip into when times are tough

whered my quote box go?

[Guest Awesome Kong]

Madness init!

[Guest 11 Bills]

them pots there

got a leaflet through recently regarding May elections

Rochdale council has to cut its budget my £100m

thats nuts

proper askin everyone to slow down n watch what theyre spending on then just go to war

ffs

[Guest Awesome Kong]

Pissed. That "Pot" would probably mean much shallower cuts, but they want to go to war for businesses and find that more important.

[e7overload]

well, from a business angle it probly makes sense most of the time. but i disagree with most wars where a country isn't fending off an invasion

[gattsu]

should of replaced the harriers 10 years ago anyways there ain't even going to be aircraft to put on these carriers when they are built

some joke ting tbh

lol @ the eurofighter aswell how many have crashed now?

[Frank.]

should of replaced the harriers 10 years ago anyways there ain't even going to be aircraft to put on these carriers when they are built

some joke ting tbh

lol @ the eurofighter aswell how many have crashed now?

Thats not the worst thing, we dont have enough qualified pilots to fly the bastards.

[Frank.]

my uncle in kandahar with an rpg can shoot down all helicopters and also fighter jets with soviet era anti air craft guns save maybe an f22

Whats there success rate on that old chestnut amigo?

Nil

[Flojo]

all this new military sh*t is meaningless and crap

my uncle in kandahar with an rpg can shoot down all helicopters and also fighter jets with soviet era anti air craft guns save maybe an f22

lmao

[Guest Awesome Kong]

should of replaced the harriers 10 years ago anyways there ain't even going to be aircraft to put on these carriers when they are built

some joke ting tbh

lol @ the eurofighter aswell how many have crashed now?

Thats not the worst thing, we dont have enough qualified pilots to fly the bastards.

@Gattsu

Eurofighter is technically already obsolete when you compare it to the F-22/F-35 which makes no sense, just like the Griphen and Rafael (sp).

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LOL @ the cut backs yet always beg to go into wars smh.

We failed when the comet flopped and the USA bullied us to get rid of this jet because they were scared we would overtake them in technology:

[djbmc]

wots that jet called bro?

[Guest Awesome Kong]

TSR2, at the time it was the most advance aircraft in the early 50s, this techology wasn't seen till the F-111, Tornado, Harrier and Concord (look at any of these and you'll see the familiarity).

WHY? They basically took ages to incorporate the technology of this aircraft into the ones highlighted. Ever since we got bullied into not making it our airforce has been weak and aero engineering declined

[gattsu]

are the new carrieres even going to be on par with the ones the us has ?

the current ones are pitiful compared against the us versions

I hope they have f 35 onboard aswell , what's the point of a out of date carrier m jets

[Guest Awesome Kong]

They will be three times larger than our current/former carriers. 66k tons but they wont have as many aircraft. They will still be smaller than the Nimitz class (american carriers) and the new american carriers. Yes they do have the F-35s. They may even carry the Eurofighter if the company decide to produce naval versions.

[gattsu]

I still wish Boeing won the.jsf contract. there jet looked so happy lol

[Guest Awesome Kong]

Yeah I prefered theirs too tbh. This one looks swag!

[spiderman]

your like a lot of people on my course and that do aero in general...they know thier sh*t when it comes to planes.

i on the other hand know pretty much f*ck all lol. quite funny considering ive been doin the science behind it for 4 years

[Guest Awesome Kong]

LOL but like me you probably know how to build one and the calculations needed, that's what is MOST important.

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On your course did they make you do modules in the workshop (CNC machining and fabrication)? Just wanted to know because I heard heard hardly any do this.