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Originally Posted by pip08456
Or was it an attempt to sell them to the RN?
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Quite possibly. Their mission availability problems are in part due to the low numbers of them in use. Fewer spares, higher cost. If the British military bought significant numbers of them it would make life easier for the US. I guess it’s still very early days for the QE carriers so plenty of time for the RN to decide if they want to ask the MOD to buy some. But I suspect that metaphorical ship has sailed - AEW is the sort of thing that drones ought to be able to do and when the navy is ready to consider swapping out their helicopters for drones I think they will find it possible to install a system capable of launching and retrieving them from their carriers.