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I agree with the last comment about the USN but also remember the fact that the F-35C is the only one being souly bought but the US so DoD, LM and Congress are more likely to let it go,

Really Canada need a twin engined jet due to the long range missions over barren land, that pretty much rules Gripen out if they decided not to go with F-35 (For Canada it always has been a mistake due to the single engine).

I would go for SHornet as they can tap into USN supply chains.

Regards

Nick

I think that is a sensible comment. We need to get away from the Cold War concept of a lonely SSBN lurking somewhere in the Atlantic waiting for Radio 4 to go off air. If we keep nuclear weapons we need to find a way to incorporate them into weapon systems we actually use. Money is so tight that the idea of a dedicated deterrent force which does nothing else is past its sell by date.

Exactly my point, we need to keep costs down, I mean even if we do buy dedicated SSBNs it doesn’t mean an insert into the tubes can’t let it be used as a SSGN when not needed in the nuclear role.

Nick

Why don’t we all be good boys and not have a deterrent :diablo:

We aren’t making a mistake with new Trident all we pretty much need to fund is the boats and the purchase of the systems, very little in the way of R&D. This will allow us to save as much money as possible. Personally I think that we could get away with 3 boats and the excess could be used to fund conventional systems or a SSGN.

We must look at the possibility of mounting a 4/6 tube module on Astute as a possible Batch 2.

With the above what I’m saying is we need to look at all the options but IMHO it really does need to be sub based as that’s the norn these says.

Nick

Sorry but which of the 3 nations you mentioned above is going to be operating 2 state of the class carriers???? NONE

The CdeG is the only decent carrier in Europe and we will have 2, very adaptable for mission, carriers

Nick

P.S. I agree with Jonesy arguements regarding Son Of/Trident

If I was fighting one of those two I would preferably have F-22 (modified for SEAD :dev2: )and Typhoon as fighters and B-2’s as bombers….Level them and then role a nice few colums of tanks in 😛

As said before Somalian, or West Country (I’m from Swindon and thats near enough but god do I not sound like a West man -Gotta love being a moonraker :P)

Nick