asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
In that case conduct yourself in the manner expected from a 43 year old you sound like a juvenile
F-35B have a CR ot about 800 km, C 1130 km a difference... ; AV-8B 550 km ; Hornet 700, Super-Hornet 900 as F-16 and Rafale 1400 as Typhoon CR with medium weapons load between A2A and A2G with more heavy weapons ofc and to subsonic speed, also Hi lo hi missions.Asif you're wrong on so many levels mate, for example QE is not a STOBAR carrier, it's a a STOVL carrier! There is no barrier assisted recovery on her. Secondly to convert QE to CATOBAR would have involved the following..
£1.8 billion to convert POW, QE too far on to be retrofitted, 200 plus compartments alone and would have resulted in one carrier instead of two.
The sortie rate on QE with 36 Daves is comparable with a Nimitz in the first 2 days of war.
The F35B has the range of a Hornet and Rafale (roughly), apart from the obvious AEW disadvantages QE is the most powerful carrier class in its current form after the Nimitz class.
, should've concentrated on its ability to protect the traffic and the UK interests (Cod Wars come to my mind) in the Northern Atlantic; instead, though, the RN concentrates on fanciful stuff of dubious combat value = two carriers with F-35Bs but no AShMs and no escort vessels with AShMs ... just imagine if they had entered the Persian Gulf at the time of hostilities...
HMS Ocean to be decommissioned in 2018, MoD announces
F-35B have a CR ot about 800 km, C 1130 km a difference... ; AV-8B 550 km ; Hornet 700, Super-Hornet 900 as F-16 and Rafale 1400 as Typhoon CR with medium weapons load between A2A and A2G with more heavy weapons ofc and to subsonic speed, also Hi lo hi missions.
Nimitz can sustain 120 sorties a day in surge 160, + 40 for both for Ford
Oh but wait, thats the 'older' F-18, so lets compare it to the newer F/A-18E/F Super Hornet used by USN as the spear head of its current carrier fleets. This has a combat radius on internal fuel of 390 nmi (449 mi, 722 km). Thats 13.3% less range than the F-35B.
The F/A-18E/F aircraft in many ways should not
be considered as a mere extension of the legacy
F/A-18 Hornets of the A, B, C, and D varieties.
The new Hornets shared very little in the sense
of dimensions. Whereas the F/A-18C measured
56 feet in length and 40 feet in wingspan, the
newer F/A-18E “Super Hornets” rolled off the
assembly line at 60 feet in length and with a
45-foot wingspan. Both aircraft were Mach 1.8
capable in speed.98 A key difference in the aircraft
was fuel load. The legacy Hornets carried
10,381 pounds of fuel internally, but the Super
Hornet’s larger size allowed it to carry 14,500
pounds. This translated to an increase of 100
nm in range for the Super Hornet, pushing the
aircraft out to just beyond 500 nm on internal
fuel.99