The Spanish light carrier has been retired. Spain will only have an LHD with a part-time carrier capability for the foreseeable future.

Although this LHD “Juan Carlos I.” is actually a step in capability.

IRST stand for infrared search and track so i think it can automatic serching as well 😀 , btw i haven’t hear about optic sensor on fighter that use UV , can u show me some caused it sound quite strange

Not on a fighter yet afaik. There are other applications for UV sensors in the work, which I would rather not talk about. But the combination of normal imaging and IR for example is quite common already.

And surely an IRST can search but any optical sensor is limited by resolution, so you always have a trade-off between Field of view and range at which a target can be detected. Look up this commercial system: http://www.infraredcamerasinc.com/images/Mirage_Pseries_2008.pdf

See the difference in FoV between the different lens options. So the longer your range (at which you get a useful picture from the sensor) the smaller your FoV is. So at maximum range, searching with an IRST is like watching the world through a straw.

The interesting point for this debate however is that using optical sensors in general giving an advantage to the ship, as it is able to carry more of those and heavier and larger and also has way more processing power (or should I say “should have”) to process the images. Giving the qualities of current sensors I dare say that the advantage of looking up into the sky instead of down on to the ground (sea) is not that much of an advantage any more, but still it makes processing easier.

Technically, the containment did not fail at all. There was no damage to the aircraft in either event. The battery’s containment cover saw to that. So the containment part of the system is working perfectly fine.
It’s the fact that the batteries are failing that is causing the concern. The batteries are Lithium Manganese, apparently a relatively new technology and just as susceptible to overheat and failure as Lithium Ion batteries.

One wonders why Boeing would decide to design their electrical architecture around such inherently dangerous batteries?

There I have to disagree. When the contents spill out or burn the containment failed. Latest rumours speculate about overcharging problems of the batteries as well. This could take a long time to fix.

The 26 Jetstream T1s were in services from 1972 and replaced by King airs in 2003 as all at was needed was a new multi engine type for training the Jetstream 41 is a much later and bigger airframe with the last ones off the line in 1999 and as you can see it has had some type to task work done and as a low cost option I feel it could work well when run along side the Navys program and when you don’t want the cost of bigger more costly MPA for say around the Falklands

Well I dare say that I do not see the Jetstreams as a better solution than Dash-8s, ATRs or CASAs. Jetstreams would be the old problem again. A old airframe, no off the shelf MPA suite and more and more roles thrown into the mix, will just lead to more costs.

For me the MPA options are:

lowest level – a King Air like Malta uses
basic level – a Dash-8 or ATR 42 MP based solution
sensible level – ATR 72 ASW or CASA 295 MPA based solution
optimum level – P-8

Anything else is not off the shelf and will probably be more expensive or less capable.

J-20 truly fifth generation, Typhoon the worst of the European 4th generations, J20 dominates. Hope you feel better now.

If you do not specify the design goal, it is impossible to answer the question.

China as the modern superpower surely does no need old bombers from Russia. When the time comes China will develop their own bomber force and then it will be the best and strongest in the world.