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My issue with the RN going the F8 is that overall it's putting lipstick on a pig. The RN is getting a lower performance aircraft than they can handle on their most capable carriers in order to retain their least capable carriers.As we've seen elsewhere the British carrier fleet wasn't scrapped for logical, rational reasons but rather political ones which is just as likely to happen if the RN got the F8 as the F4. At best getting the F8 might kick the can down the road a couple of years, but it won't get a powerful RN carrier force into the 80s, only investment in the most capable aircraft and ships will do that.
My issue with the RN going the F8 is that overall it's putting lipstick on a pig. The RN is getting a lower performance aircraft than they can handle on their most capable carriers in order to retain their least capable carriers.
As we've seen elsewhere the British carrier fleet wasn't scrapped for logical, rational reasons but rather political ones which is just as likely to happen if the RN got the F8 as the F4. At best getting the F8 might kick the can down the road a couple of years, but it won't get a powerful RN carrier force into the 80s, only investment in the most capable aircraft and ships will do that.
