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The author of your link isn't taken seriously by anyone. Adding EMALS to the UK carriers would only be useful for future naval UAVs. The UK really doesn't want
by rjsw 9y ago
The author of your link isn't taken seriously by anyone.
Adding EMALS to the UK carriers would only be useful for future naval UAVs. The UK really doesn't want to have to keep pilots current at doing conventional deck landings, it is too expensive and you can't rapidly change the mix of F-35 and helicopters on each carrier.
- Animats 9y agoCan the UK afford all those F-35s?
- __d 9y agoCan anyone afford those F35's?
- cottsak 9y agoCanada is trying hard to snap out of the insanity of the affordability of the F-35.. but pressures from local contractors tied up in the program are going to make it very hard.
- rjsw 9y agoThe sticker price of the F-35B isn't the real cost to the UK as it manufactures a fairly large part of it. The sticker price of the F-18E/F is what would have to be paid plus the cost of a number of T-45s for training plus the cost of replacing the results of a steady stream of airframe losses during normal use. The expectation is that if the new carriers were ever full of F-35s then a fair number would have USMC markings.