aielen wrote:All are welcome to discuss these two issues not just Brits.
I'll start with a one lineer: It is a risky and almost stupid decision to have an aircraft carrier w/o aircraft.
This is as dumb as the US scrapping the space shuttle program- without having an alternate vehicle to transport astronauts to and from the ISS.
So... Britain has killed the Harrier program, right? And Britain's carriers can only accommodate copters and jump jets, right? Ouch. It's damn hard to project military might globally without carriers, though Cameron still maintains that the UK will retain its status as a top tier military power.... he's delusional. No carrier capability until 2019 is just nuts. Maybe we can loan them one
