On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 19:49:12 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"John B." wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:27:32 -0800, Mary-Jane Rottencrotch
wrote:

On 2017-12-10 11:36, Jim Wilkins wrote:

Even for Britain one visiting US carrier is as or more powerful
than
the nation's entire Air Force.
This is some A-grade horse ****. How many thousand aircraft do you
think
you can fit on one boat?

An article printed in the 11 Dec 2017 issue of the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gene...ight-Isil.html
Stated that the RAF had:
40 Typhoons, 8 Tornado and 6 Reaper aircraft available, at the time
of
writing, for use in combat. That is a total of 54 combat ready
aircraft.

The Nimitz-class supercarriers can accommodate a maximum of 130
F/A-18
Hornets or 85 aircraft of different types, but current numbers are
typically 64 aircraft.

(Reality IS stranger then fiction)
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Cheers,

John B.

I saw similar numbers in a different, older Telegraph(?) article
about a visiting US carrier. The comparison was a British gripe rather
than an American boast.

I've always thought that memories of the world encompassing empire
was, perhaps, their worst shortcoming.

--
Cheers,

Schweik