Great pics, I like the looks of the 2 seater too 🙂

Anyone who has played Rugby knows it is very hard to pin a man down when he is struggling, but it is very easy to trigger a bomb.

If I thought I was tackling a struggling suicide bomber and thought my life was in extreme danger I’d shoot him too.

you think you can get enough budget out of LPDS, a very specific desighn to purchase to more carriers, whilst massively reducing the RN’s amphibious capability? thats one of the most insane ideas Ive heard.

Insane???? Why would replacing 6 ships with 6 more flexible ships be insane?

To be honest I think britains defence budget, some of it at least, would be better spent on dealing with terrorists in britain rather than on having more than 2 carriers.

How will cutting back on military equipment spending have any effect on terrorism?

huh yeah they will
-first of all no of RN escorts is drastically going down from 30 to 18,
-second of all without those docks RN’s amphibious capabilities will be very limited.
-Third those docks dont require much manpower or maintenence cost, around 300 complement for albion. A 25k ton carrier would require 4 times as much.

The carriers I suggested would only replace the LPDs at the end of their service life and they would have some amphibious capability too.

A lot of the RNs amphibious capability will be in the form of the Bay class Large Amphibious Landing Ships anyway. http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/2750.html

I think the manpower requirements for six modern technology 25,000t carriers will not be a problem when you consider that only 3-4 will be active at one time and will embark airgroups which bring their own support personal.

The problem of six carriers is manpower, spmething the RN is very short of.

RN doesnt seem have enough surface combatants in the near future to protect that many carriers unless # of t-45s is increased to 12 and FSC procurment is sped up, if that doesnt happen 2015 RN’s surface combatant fleet will be composed of 6 Type 45s and 12-13 Type 23s.

The 6 carriers I proposed would replace 6 existing ships, so they wouldn’t increase the burden on escorts or manpower too much, if at all. It would also be a rare event to have all 6 active at the same time.

Yes of course I stopped, however it seems a bit sad that a 2 minute silence has caused augments on this and several other forums.

I just find it frustrating that we can get the majority of the UK to do nothing for 2 minutes as a show of sympathy, but we can’t unite to put an end to all the inhumanity we have to tolerate in this country.

Although I am impressed by the CVF design, I still don’t think it’s the right choice for the UK. The CVF would be ideal for the CTOL airgroups of France and even the USA, but I still believe the UK should stick to V/STOVL operations and benefit from the cheaper and smaller carriers that V/STOVL aircraft can operate on.

As I have said before, I would like to see a class of six 25,000t+ carriers to first replace the three Invincible class carriers, then the LPH HMS Ocean and finally the LPDs HMS Albion and Bulwark. Each of these new carriers would operate 25 aircraft, the mix of STOVL JSFs and helicopters would change to suit the mission (air strikes, air assault, sea control, etc).

I believe this 6 carrier class would be a far better long term solution to the UKs needs.