One of these things costs as much as a Billion dollars a year to run (6000 crew salaries don’t come cheap), so that somewhat limits the number of countries prepared to consider it. Plus its 40 years old. They will probably lay her up in reserve and then scrap her in a few years.

Having been on the Rotterdam (thats not exactly small) how much longer is the De Witt ? Very impressive craft.

I think its a shame that the UK equivalents haven’t got a hanger and have a much smaller dock

There are known cases of the Bear out accelerating small fighters from low speeds, so the Nimrod story doesn’t surprise me, those big 8 props get a lot of ‘bite’ in the air

Ah, so it’s having both types fitted. Interesting 😎

Yep that was some bomb. The largest man made explosion ever. 57 Megatonnes wasn’t it ?

No one has mentioned how appalingly noisy the TU-95 was inside. Many cases of hearing impairment occurred among crew

Where does Belgium get the lion rampant from on their Roundel ? What does it mean ?

Not sure I like the revised roundel either. Its almosts as bizarre as this :diablo: Which was actually used during WW2. As to whether it was official or not is open to doubt

http://www.fotw.net/images/b/be-raf.gif

By cutting him out and leaving all the surrounding frame in situ, they would have a much better chance of seeing exactly what the problem was that caused it not to open.

UK operates about 75 Harriers, although that number will fall with the Sea Harrier retirement