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2006-06-09 Europe
France, UK on board for joint aircraft carrier
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Posted by lotp 2006-06-09 13:26|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Because everyone knows that the most successful aircraft carriers are designed by committee.
Posted by WhitecollarRedneck 2006-06-09 14:15||   2006-06-09 14:15|| Front Page Top

#2 There is already a problem: the Phrench one will only turn left
Posted by USN, ret. 2006-06-09 14:17||   2006-06-09 14:17|| Front Page Top

#3 UK has been after that French Detachable Screw® technology for years.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-06-09 15:00||   2006-06-09 15:00|| Front Page Top

#4 This seems like a so what to me.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-09 15:01||   2006-06-09 15:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Talk about a cluster fuck!
That poor boat wont know wether to go in circles or sink itself and end it's misery. France and the UK together, wow! Two of the most screwed up bureaucracies in the west, that can't get anything done on their own, setting out on a venture like this.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-09 15:17||   2006-06-09 15:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Does anyonething either nation will have the will to powerproject by the time the carriers are complete? Methinks they'll be fighting urban wars in their Islamic ghetos long before then.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-06-09 15:23||   2006-06-09 15:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Thgere's going to be lots of A-380s to move troops available. Just not many runways to land on.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-09 15:35||   2006-06-09 15:35|| Front Page Top

#8 rjschwarz, you are so right. Denial is difficult to overcome, but they MUST face reality. Invest in some strikers and drones.
Posted by wxjames 2006-06-09 17:28||   2006-06-09 17:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Means the muslims will get their carrier soon.
Posted by Fordesque 2006-06-09 20:31||   2006-06-09 20:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Providing a floating platform for eurofighters.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-06-09 21:35||   2006-06-09 21:35|| Front Page Top

#11 FOX once again had that commentary where the [proposed] EU nations is aware that America is far more richer than the EU despite the EU having 170 Milyuuhn more citizens, and that in 20 years Americans will be twice as rich as EU citizens despite the glories/efforts of leisurely pan-EuroSocialist welfarism.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-09 22:00||   2006-06-09 22:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Q: Why do French nuclear carriers travel without running lights?

A: Cause they glow in the dark.
Posted by DMFD 2006-06-09 22:50||   2006-06-09 22:50|| Front Page Top

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