$65 billion would rebuild our navy to a proper state – any chance the US Navy wants to lend the RN some funds :(.

buy french Rafales and get the french to buy a CVF from us. They get a major sale of jets and we build them a new carrier for it every one’s a winner.

we order 100 of the jets – cost close to 6 bill – we build them a carrier – 3 bill we get a better fighter and they get to say they got the better deal. Maybe get them to buy AW159 Lynx Wildcat’s in the order something 25-30 of those then we are getting some where.

too big. This new missile was meant to be no larger than 2 meters.

Fifth Fleet ready for Iran attack, experts say

Military experts say the Fifth Fleet has come a long way since Iranian gunboats crippled it within hours in a notorious war game five years ago.

In fact, says John Pike, president of the Alexandria, Va.-based Global Security Web site, the Navy was well on its way to solving the challenge of fending off the swarming swift boats before the war game began.

In that test, an enemy “red team” headed by retired Marine Corps Gen. Paul Van Riper deployed the gun boats and propeller-driven suicide planes to paralyze the Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf.

It took Riper less than two hours to knock it out of commission.

Key to the shocking result was Van Riper’s strategy of neutralizing the American advantage in big guns and cruise missiles by getting in close before hostilities began.

But the Navy now has the MK 182, “the mother of all shotgun shells,” fired by 5-inch guns deployed on every major ship in the fleet, says Pike.
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Love the MK182 – wonder if we have something similar for our guns on type 23

nice new paint job for their cobra copies