Richard Dastardly Posted May 25, 2024 Posted May 25, 2024 (edited) 2 hours ago, Valkyrie1-1 said: The marketing spin claimed so, "easily" yeah not so sure about that. You certainly could convert them to CTOL if you REALLY wanted to, but it wouldn't be particularly easy or cheap. After spending £100m on "studies" in the early 2010s I think they decided the cheapest way to get a CATOBAR carrier would be to build a new carrier. Yeah, the carrier project was a *magnificent* example of procurement... CATOBAR doesn't mean "no ramp" either, with the width of that deck there'd be room for both. Sigh. "Easily" as in "less work than HMS Victorious" perhaps - talking of MoD carrier farces! Edited May 25, 2024 by Richard Dastardly Most Wanted: the angry Naval Lynx | Seafire | Buccaneer | Hawker Hunter | Hawker Tempest/Sea Fury | Su-17/22 | rough strip rearming / construction
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