@Arthur Pewtey
Nope, you are trying to mix my two comments, which are about two quite different things.

1. Free sports facilities are a better choice for the health and fitness of British people than Olympic parks for the worlds athletes.

2. Olympics may inspire some a new British generation, but if you want to inspire something with taxpayers money, how about inspiring business and R&D to fix the economic mess.

Seems quite clear to me.

@Arthur Pewtey
I think my generation have much bigger problems left over by the previous generation than lack of inspiration for sport 😎

@eagle1
F18 has the advantage of more of the FAA pilots being trained for it, so will be in service faster. F18 can drop bombs and carry AMRAAM, thats good enough for interim. The only issue I see is a potential shortage of F18s, since the USN is going to need more life from the F18 fleet too. The very slow delivery of Rafale means it’s hardly available at short notice in decent numbers to be an interim option, and any UK domestic production of it would take even longer!

@Rii
Your statement makes no sense. France faces far bigger problems than Britain, Google “Euro Crisis”. They aren’t in a position to procure a 65,000t aircraft carrier, nor is Brazil. China could afford them though, but can’t think of many others that can.

@Lindermyer
ASRAAM could just be used in Sidewinder mode, its only an interim aircraft.

jbritchford

It’s an awkward question for those Scots wishing to have a double standard 😀

As to the Isle of Wight, I think that would be quite an interesting independent country! Perhaps they could organise free trade agreements with Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Portsmouth? Ahh yes, I can see it now, a duty free at Brockenhurst 😀

@Arthur Pewtey

I don’t see how it shows what the UK is capable of… There’s just not much to be done that is a demonstration of something useful. The only significant one is the stadium ect, but there are already examples of those in the UK.

Sport is fine, but British funding for it needs to be focused on the majority of the population, not events to show how great some 5 stone runner from Kenya is. How about making more gyms and swimming pools available to the public for next to nothing to be run by local councils?

That is by no means certain. I don’t think their has been a decision on what’s going to happen after Trident, at least not in the previous SDR.

Nobody has made any serious mention of the M51 being procured, and all the talk and agreements have been about using the Trident successor. From a technical standpoint the M51 doesn’t even make sense, it’s inferior to the Trident 2!

British Army not Royal Army
Fleet Air Arm not Royal Air Arm
Royal Air Force and Royal Navy as they are

😎

As to the question, similar things to those changed on the F35. I think comms was one of them.