Care to elaborate because on its own that statement makes no sense.

So it can be sold to Qatar and India but cryptography issues prevent it being sold to core NATO allies??

Carrier landing is about more than distance, it demands strong landing gear to absorb higher than usual forces as the deck could be moving up as you land, or down. You have to slam it down as if the deck is going down but it might be moving up.

Agent K – It’s all down to interpretation really. TBH 17% is actually quite a low value, a higher percentage of EU goods come back the other way. I’m surprised that it is only 17% for goods since we were told about 40% for goods and services, but I assume there are other ports involved, like Rotterdam routes. Knowing the percentage of trade and knowing how many lorries that entails are two different things. I think he was probably reassuring the folks at the technology conference that he understood the problem, media gets hold of it and you know the rest.

And I’ve already explained the stockpiling, it’s simply to cover lag at the point of switch over. Once the changeover is made, things will still roll in everyday, they’ll just have longer lead times. This really isn’t a problem. I have no idea why someone is stockpiling Turkeys because of Brexit though, Christmas is in December, leaving the EU is in March. But then, Brussels have been stockpiling Turkeys since 1992.

Well, there is one way to avoid getting caught in the barbed wire.

New Missiles Unveiled at Airshow China 2018

Have they agreed whether there’s going to be a carrier variant or not yet?