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Jeneral2885

(1,354 posts) Thu May 10, 2012, 10:24 AM May 2012

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Poor Choice: Back to the F-35B

http://www.labour.org.uk/prime-minister-derided-a-policy-theyre-now-defending

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/10/hammond-aircraft-carrier-u-turn

No Cat and Traps means no E-2/AWACS planes. Means no aerial surveillance. Means poor radar coverage just like in Falklands.

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Poor Choice: Back to the F-35B (Original Post) Jeneral2885 May 2012 OP

The British navy is only a shadow of its former self. Johnny Rico May 2012 #1

Johnny Rico

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1. The British navy is only a shadow of its former self.

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Thu May 10, 2012, 12:00 PM

May 2012

It certainly doesn't rule the waves anymore...

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