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its a shame to lose ark royal but since the sea harrier got scraped in the 90s the carrier lost its punch or even self defence against anything as the current gr9 hasn't got long range anti air missiles just a couple of winders so against an airforce it would be up ++++ creek anyway. With regards to the falklands would 4 eurofighters make that much of a difference and the 2 rapier batteries dont think so. It does beggar believe on what we could send to retake the islands buy some harriers from the us marines? Now the current model of the harrier the raf is good for cas missions but that role can be done by either the tornado or euro or worst case the hawk. ↲Now the new carriers should be catapult launch instead of vtol and just buy some rafaels from the french to use with them by the time the ships are ready they'll do fine and only have to wait 4 years to have the over priced jsf working on them.

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oh sorry about the lak of breaks in the text above but this stupid phone just doesn't like doing that