I like your concept but it’s butt Ugly!!! Can you not edit something along the lines of mine below or a number of others at Shipbucket and make something please to the eye 😛 remember its not important what it doesn it’s important how good it looks while doing it.

I really do fear for the mental wellbeing of Jonesy with the latest joiners to these boards recent postings.

verbatim and OldNotBold you will be the end of Jonesy.

In that case if your goign to buy INFERIOR planes, just buy upgraded F-4s or sky hawks. I mean they are just as capable as a EF versus s-300 systems Jsut cheaper. :diablo:

Cos there arent any left with times on the frames.

I always liked he idea of the F35-C it would be nice. But I still think we’ll end up with the B. If we did end up with C i would hope they wouldnt settle for using a helicopter for AEW. We dont need it at in 2014 we need in 2015 and hope that by then our gov could manage to find 300 mil for a couple to start with

I have no words. It is worse than a horror movie. FAR worse.

I couldnt agree more – I am simply past words in how bad this could get. I always accepted we would never be a tier 1 navy and that the Royal Navy would never rule the waves. But serioulsy did I think it would get this bad? Never in a million years. A conservative government has cut the navy to shreds – yes Labour caused it but for heavens sake dont cut defence!!

Not stirring it – honest but I seen loads of posts on why the navalised Typhoon was a non-starter and why we cannot upgrade Harrier but I have not really seen my much on the Tornado. Not that I am holding it up as a model of a good programme but the Nimrod MR4 does show you can take an old plane and make radical changes to the airframe. Is the reason why you cannot take old Tornado’s, strengthen their air frames, add new landing gear and arrestor gear more about the cost (i.e. likely to be more than buying new aircraft) or is it to do with the changes being to great that it would be simply impossible to re-engineer the Tornado?

It was never designed for the stresses / sea air / low speed approach and many many many other reasons why it could never be a carrier aircraft – sure it might look a little like the F-14 but it really isn’t

why don’t we just ditch the F-35 for a navalised Typhoon or Tornado or just upgrade the Harrier? It’d be cheaper

No it wouldnt – dont be stupid – read past post about this.

typhoon – cost to much to navalise
Tornado – could never ever ever be navalised.
Upgrade harrier- its old and tired and not worth it.

ahhhh I hate this post coming up every couple of months

Typhoon being selected in MMRCA; with RN and perhaps Italian AM (and possibly Spain too?) selecting the ski-jump capable naval Tejas under development in exchange?

The Italian and Spanish Carriers can only ever operate STOVL aircraft. They do not have an angled deck for recovery or length to to be able to recover.