Navy Pilots - Fleet Air Arm - Episode 1 - 1/3

Navy Pilots
Fleet Air Arm
Episode 1 - 1/3

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• royal
• navy
• fleet
• air
• arm
• pilot
• jet
• helicopter
• harrier
• gr7
• merlin
• asw
• sea
• king
• carrier
• british

[ScouttheDoggieFan]

Harrier would get blown up by

f-22

F15

F16

F18

f-35

Iam a fraid our jet is slightly outdated we need a new one what do you guys think?

[Plawranc]

The First US combat air arm was formed in 1918 in the last months of WW1, the first British combat air arm was formed in 1915 in the early stages of trench warfare.

Englands airforces have fought in every major war the modern world has seen bar Vietnam. And each time it has scored more kills and more destroyed infastructure than the United States.

(US Air power was not a factor until 1943 in Europe during WW2 and even then in limited strength)

[BDFPA]

@hosssized but you do realise that this programme was made 12+ years ago.

[TheUncleDougger]

Bottom line on the Harrier, with no "I have heard", no "I read somewhere", etc is this: It can turn inside any pursuing aircraft, it can use over the horizon weaponry that makes relative speed a moot point, it can evade most incoming air to air weapons by manuver. It also makes a pretty good close support platform due to very modern electronic weapons delivery packages.

It's not a racehorse, it's a very agile pack mule. It fills a huge niche well, and smaller niches where it rules the roost.

[harrybyles1996]

@ScouttheDoggieFan thats why were getting the f 35.. but now we have no naval jets :P

[DarknessUnofficial]

@vk45de Oh I agree, but as I stated before, the Harrier would/should never come into direct contact with one of those aircraft. Its purpose was/is CAS and ground attack in a theatre where air superiority has already been established. I have no doubt that the Harrier would be shot down by every single one of those aircraft.

[vk45de]

@DarknessUnofficial Holding a single advantage is far from winning. Although the UK is unlikely to ever fight the US, Russians do make a lot of planes with better range and radar than most american teen series fighters which are already better than the harrier. They'll have no problem shooting down any harrier. You do need the EF2000

[MSavageEsq]

RIP Fleet Air Arm fixed wing capability. With the current defence budgets etc., I am not sure that it will ever be recovered.

[hosssized]

The English LT. said the harrier "weapon system in second to none in the UK" (min. 3:03). currently the US has about 6 fighter or attack aircraft that are better then the English Harrier. This fact is supported because the USMC uses the same model, and its no match for the F22 and the A10 is a better ground attack aircraft.

and American military pilots flew for the RAF in WWII as early as 1940, and when the US fully committed aircraft in Britain, the Nazis left.

[DarknessUnofficial]

@ScouttheDoggieFan But a Harrier would never be in direct conflict with any of those aircraft, so your point is completely moot. The Harrier II was actually far more advanced than a large amount of current fast jet aircraft, and holds advantages over every single aircraft you posted.

[MrMoorkey]

@ScouttheDoggieFan ...add to that the bulldozers in the scrapyards...

[euanross89]

Get the feeling that a lot of people posting here are failing to realise that the world has largely moved on from airtoair combat. It WILL remain a part of air warfare but it in the current climate, fast & agile platforms for Air to ground are going to be much more useful. Billions on aircraft that would last have been useful during the 90's isn't going to improve abilities of NATO in the war on terror. And why the hell would the USA be shooting down the aircraft of western European airforces?