US stealth F-35 jet is grounded

#juan

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Hardly a "Jeep Carrier"
 

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with a Spectacular deck load of Super Hornets..
At 65,000 tonnes , the Q E is , fortunately, big enough to handle the Dassault Rafale...

Once they dump the Just Silly Follies overboard...

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Another superior US Aircraft those Super Hornets are. I remember when the Hornet was in design and about to come into service and all of the critics were against them. They were proven wrong now weren't they.
 

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Another superior US Aircraft those Super Hornets are. I remember when the Hornet was in design and about to come into service and all of the critics were against them. They were proven wrong now weren't they.

Righto on the F18f....
You can thank me any time for 'leading thee into the light"
 

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EagleSmack

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Righto on the F18f....
You can thank me any time for 'leading thee into the light"

You leading me? You must be kidding and you still don't get it. The F-18 before it came into service was ripped up and down by critics saying it would never be able to compete against Soviet aircraft.

Now fast forward to the F-35.

Are you finally getting it?
 

#juan

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Currently only flown by the angel Gabriel when he brings the Deserving Home...

Feel free to explain the Symbolism to ES...
When he's done berating his dead horse argument...

I'm one of the few people around here who actually saw the Arrow fly. I was very disappointed when it was cancelled but I can still see humour in a supersonic interceptor on floats. Good old Dief......:roll:
 

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That's right... outside the US Navy...got that BL? Feel it?

No. I don't feel anything particularly.

Here's one of the new Queen Elizabeth-class carriers taking shape at Rosyth, where the parts of the new carriers, which have been built around the country, are assembled together:




With the Liverpool skyline in the background parts of a new aircraft carrier leave the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead on the west coast on their way to Rosyth on the east coast


This piece passes under the Forth Rail Bridge as it nears Rosyth following its 600-mile round-the-coast journey from Govan shipyard in Glasgow (below)

 
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