This may sound really stupid, but why cant airships travel faster abit of research into optimum shape slap a few jet engines on the thing?
yes I seem to remember a while back watching a few programs about large transport airships currently in the design phase if I remember correctly there were 2 competing companies
well this is what I am thinking as a big target! but then again would u be able to make a stealth airship and surly they could armour it in this day and age? or maybe it could be an advantage in a theatre like Afghanistan you could hoist a few fighters really high up on a airship, a fast reaction call, pilot slips in the cockpit and is off I imagine this would reduce the time until the aircraft is on site, due to the fact it would only have to fly down rather than up then down. also the airship could be performing Intel gathering while its up there. or maybe I am just letting my imagination run wild haha!
Seems this has turned into a EFvsF22 thread, which I must take some responsibility for! I don’t think any 1 really argues that the F22 isn’t the better plane, this would be ludicrous. but I think for some people to suggest the EF is so far behind the F22 that it is not worth having is ludicrous also! I mean as a air superiority fighter F22 wins but as a CAS aircraft in Afghanistan or a general workhorse I would say the F22 is overkill. in my opinion they are Two different planes both very good so y bother argue which is best?
what is the typhoons supercruise range? im guessing its smaller?
mind you if where not just talking of fighters the vulcan and victor have got to win hands down right?
3rd or 4th gen. tornado, f-111, jaguar , f-14 and mirage 2000 beautiful!
plus im sure the idea of the subs i no 1 knows were they are! and i would imagen that some countries that you would lauch nukes against would notice if you were building underwater silos and wud be watching were u place them and therefor i assume they wouldnt be to hard to take out with torps. but then again if you could build them without any 1 noticing it would be a good idea, id say the best thing for britain to do is make dummy nukes to save money because lets face it if we need to use them were prob screwed anway!
they shud make 1 massive carrier like 80,000 ton and 1 smaller 40,000 but exactly the same design that way we can keep the beast in port just in case we actualy need it n send the small 1 out but if we need to scare some misbehaving country we can send the small 1 and they will think its the big 1 just far away! i know theres alot of reasion that wouldnt work but im chosing to ignore thm! 🙂