poor quallity video, but you can clearly see that he pulled the wheels up far too soon.

The missus asked if he was insurred :diablo:

Oh, I thought Rickover already had a boat named after him?

There is SSN-709

But I read that in the new class they have already set aside a vessel with this name, I guess this LA class will retire sooner than we expect :confused:

The way the RN is going, one man with a screw driver will be able to take out the entire RN in one hit- God Save Ireland, up the Republic :dev2:

I heard that the is going to be a Hyman J. Rickover in the next class of boat built

As for Billy, well mate that depends on who gets in when the ship comes up for naming!

Well we have an Improved model of this ship in our fleet HMAS Tobruk and the Brits wanted to buy it off us.

These are very capable ships and I can see why the MdB would be interested in it, better that the old County class they they have (which we turned into LPA’s Manoora and Kanimbla).

Good call

I remember that the Irish Navy were looking at an LPD sized ship in the Rotterdam class for service there since they are now moving into peace keeping duties, has anyone heard anything about that’s going?

Wow this really opens up a whole new chapter on this board, there are so many fighters to choose from, some lasted only a few years, while others went on to last decades.

Starters I’d have to agree on the Avon Sabre, there were few planes that really could match it at the time, and the two 20mm guns instead of the six .50cals also made a huge difference, not to mention the AIM-9B’s

Next for me it would have to be the Ford (F4D Skyray)

Then possibly the Vampire

And then the SAAB J-29

Not leaving out Russian planes I’d have to say that the only early Russian jet that held any interest for me was the Mig-9 Fargo

That’s a very nice and clean cockpit, so simple