Originally posted by Steve Touchdown
Touché, Glitter!
Maybe that’s why I was asking :p
But from what I hear the deck’s not big enough to turn them around…so what happens next!?
Steve Rush ~ Touchdown-News
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1) When the DCN design the deck, the CdG ( or should I say, the Richelieu) were supposed to get Super Etendard and RAfale only.
2) The French Navy decide that Hawkeyes would be a very cool feature.
3) Well, I supposed the DCN check with the USA the haweye’s physical behaviour on a deck
4) the real lives test show that if the E2 catch the last wire(unlikely or during a bad weather or during a stress period), the hawkeye should be in a akward situation and couldn’t quickly get away of his place and would block the movements for over one minute (during a storm or a stress period = war, that wasn’t what you call a good news).
5) The solution ? to add 2 meters of deck. Cost ? 40 millions of french francs. For a 18 billions francs program, it wasn’t a real problem.
Yes, 18 billions of FF, not $4 billions.
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