DocBarrister wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:36 am
cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:22 am
2038??? It sure looks like they are not in a hurry to build it. The construction must be a union job if it is going to take 18 years to build it?
More than a light carrier ... but not quite a true super carrier.
Typical middling French endeavor.
DocBarrister
The French will always be, ...well, French.
Credit them for sustaining their own organic defense industry,
even if it means they're always 1 generation behind, at a higher per unit cost.
...but their stuff always looks sexier & they're not afraid to use it.
The Brits, true to form, took our light carrier concept & made it slightly bigger & more capable, using our F-35B's
Just as we followed their lead in conventional carrier development, they designed the Harrier, thought of the ski jump bow & took it to sea first.