More news in regard to the new carrier(s)

[John]

The latest story is that we may sell one of them to the Indian Navy!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009 ... ll-carrier

Surely they should just sell them HMS Invincible which is currently laid-up in the dockyard?

Just a thought

Kind regards

John

[SkippyBing]

I think you'd be hard pushed to give Invincible away for free, it's certainly not what the Indians want as they plan to operate MiG-29s.
Incidentally this and the RAF cuts are all part of the annual build up to the year's budget in which lists of potential cuts are drawn up as political manoeuvring before hand. Of course there's generally the mistaken assumption that the people making the cuts have an actual clue about defence, hence the RN losing its SSKs in the early '90s as only an idiot would get rid of that capability....

[John]

Yeah suppose so. She's been a spares ship for a long time now and she's no spring chicken.

John

[basys]

Hi Folks

At a guess,
usual Guardian/Observer crossed wires.
ISTR similarly reported firm interest in late 80s re: Invincible.

India is already building 2 new 40,000 tonne STOBAR aircraft carrriers, (potentially 3 vessels),
plus awaiting delivery of the Gorshkov/Vikramaditya conversion.

HTH
ATB
Paul

[SkippyBing]

By the looks of it we'd be better off buying carriers from the Indians...

[basys]

LOL

Naval note -
Astute departed Barrow 09:30 today, (didn't see her go myself).

EDIT -
V short vid of Astute underway by Connor at ShipAIS.

ATB
Paul

[John]

Well I hope it gets further than this aircraft carrier will!

http://www.robinzhang.com/shanghai/jpse ... l_land.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yAA7qe4m5lE/S ... arrier.jpg
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7507/savemj8.jpg
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3931/sml2.jpg

Uuuuuummm I wonder if this is also one?

http://www.chinasmack.com/pictures/conc ... ing-wuhan/

(posted here already)
http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsim/cbfsBB/vie ... =8&t=18336

Kind regards

John

[AllanL]

Clydebank has had a "floating" fish and chip boat alongside the canal for about ten years..................
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/110687

See culture, these furriners have nae idea.

[John]

Ha ha! Well if all else fails we can use that!

John

[Garry Russell]

In Jersey there is a restaurant built lioke an upturned boat

Garry