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In article sting.com,
Jabba wrote:
Tim Streater scribbled...


In article
sting.com, Jabba
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harryagain scribbled...

It cost over a £1million for every bomb that hit the runway,
when the fleet had the same bombs available for their
aircraft, which were several thousand miles closer to the
target. The operation was performed to wind up the RN, in an
attempt to prove that aircraft carriers have no use. Looks
like they won as we don't have any carriers now and all the
aircraft the navy used have been scrapped.

Er. We are building new ones.

One may not be built, if it is, it will be mothballed immediately.
The second might be in service in 6 years time. So we would have
been without a carrier for almost 10 years - they're not exactly
vital to our defence are they?

Going back to the Falklands, we had 2 carriers and they were not
used well. The admiral in charge was a prat. I've read a couple
of books by harrier pilots and none have a good word for Woodward.
His ****ups put pressure on the Navy afterwards.

What sort of things were they complaining about?


Not doing anything about the Hercules refuelers used by the
Argentinians. Keeping 2 aircraft on standby, on deck, throughout the
war, when they should have been used in action. Not sharing out the
raids sensibly between the carriers. Not putting Stanley airport out
of action - properly. Keeping the carrier fleet too far away from the
Falklands during the day, which meant aircraft were only able to
provide limited CAP over the landings.

Sounds to me as though the pilots have never heard of tactics. All
aircaft out on patrol and what is left for close defence. Did the two
carriers have identical aircrat on board? I though there were RAF
Harriers as well as FAA ones. They had different roles, Did the Navy
have suitable bombs to deal with the runway at Stanley? and could they
have got past theair defences (missiles). The last one was to keep the
carriers out of Exocet range. I imagine an Exocet would make a nasty
mess of a carrier.

They got pretty close - but missed and hit the Atlantic Conveyor instead.

which had a significant number of Chinooks as its main cargo.

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