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On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 19:49:12 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
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"John B." wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:27:32 -0800, Mary-Jane Rottencrotch
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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.

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Cheers,

Schweik

Britain is making a serious effort to resume their share of the load
of global peacekeeping,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_...rcraft_carrier

which is appropriate as many current trouble spots were their former
colonies, Iraq, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan for example. The USA
had relatively little global influence before WW2 and much of what we
did have was spent on trying to restrain European imperialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Door_Policy

-jsw