Our Navy is known to all the world and on its strength we depend. I had a tour around her at Devonport went up to the flight deck. She was big, proud and tall. They were stripping out every thing sad to see. The Naval Officer told me that one day we will need a ship this size and the Falklands proved him right.
almost deffinately, Ark royal carring Buc's and Phantoms would have saved Many lives and most of the ships lost during that war, Shar's proved themselves, but lacked the range and speed of phantoms, same as raf harriers lacked the range and payload of bucc's and you can gaurentee this would've resulted in a proper carrier class being designed, built and commissioned by mid 90's, CVF may be late, but pair this with the capabilities of ships entering RN service by 2020, something to be proud of!!!
much more than that, there where huge navy cutbacks that didn't limit themselves to the surface fleet in the pipeline, there was even speculation/plans that the royal marines would be disbanded
falklands war taught us the need for real carriers, invincible class was never meant to be a carrier, RN in the cold war was designed for ASW do you need fixed wing for ASW?
If britain had built all the audacious class, the malta class, continued with the centaur class, used all the majestic class and colosuss class in reserve, plus modernised all the illustroius class like HMS victorious and had gone ahead with cva 01class, imagine what the royal navy would have been like by the 70s, let alone today.
The new Queen Elizabeth Class Carriers are both now going to have catapaults and arrester gear even that is now ten years away
BRU11ROAD 9 months ago
Our Navy is known to all the world and on its strength we depend. I had a tour around her at Devonport went up to the flight deck. She was big, proud and tall. They were stripping out every thing sad to see. The Naval Officer told me that one day we will need a ship this size and the Falklands proved him right.
Seal00754 1 year ago
@mayboy892 my uncle used to be cheif electrical engineer
stormcruiser2 1 year ago
loytime - what the fuck has this got to do with fucking leeds?
Cyberwwwizard 2 years ago
pride of leeds!
loytime 3 years ago
I have very fond memories of this old girl.
I had the good luck to have served onboard her twice.
1st with 892 Squadron (Phantoms)
2nd as part of her great crew.
Anyone from 4v1 mess will remember me - Big George from the top grot.
We lost her (scrapped) in 1978 - gone but never forgotten.
Good ship with a good crew
As Little Wilf used to say `kin hell. :-)
mayboy892 3 years ago
almost deffinately, Ark royal carring Buc's and Phantoms would have saved Many lives and most of the ships lost during that war, Shar's proved themselves, but lacked the range and speed of phantoms, same as raf harriers lacked the range and payload of bucc's and you can gaurentee this would've resulted in a proper carrier class being designed, built and commissioned by mid 90's, CVF may be late, but pair this with the capabilities of ships entering RN service by 2020, something to be proud of!!!
Vyvyan92 3 years ago
much more than that, there where huge navy cutbacks that didn't limit themselves to the surface fleet in the pipeline, there was even speculation/plans that the royal marines would be disbanded
falklands war taught us the need for real carriers, invincible class was never meant to be a carrier, RN in the cold war was designed for ASW do you need fixed wing for ASW?
Vyvyan92 3 years ago
If britain had built all the audacious class, the malta class, continued with the centaur class, used all the majestic class and colosuss class in reserve, plus modernised all the illustroius class like HMS victorious and had gone ahead with cva 01class, imagine what the royal navy would have been like by the 70s, let alone today.
hmasmelbourne 3 years ago
Well, they got what they payed for. When you start borrowing bits off de-commisioned vessels you know you're in trouble.
SyberSid 3 years ago