Farewell to the Harrier

[flynlion]

Doesn't this leave the Royal Navy without a fixed wing combat aircraft? Seems odd that they would retire the Harrier before the F-35 is ready, guess they plan to do it all with land based planes.

[dkwookie]

Yeah we won't have any carrier based fixed wing until 2020. If things go tits up somewhere we won't be able to respond

[olife]

the harrier!!
what a great plane!!
congratulations to the english people,u know how to built a very good planes!!!
...and snif the harriers kick the ass of a french product called MIRAGE in the falkland war..but it was good...because save the freedom
respect english boys

[flynlion]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

Yeah we won't have any carrier based fixed wing until 2020. If things go tits up somewhere we won't be able to respond

Aren't things already tits up? What's the Royal Navy fighting with now?

[winny]

Originally Posted by flynlion

Aren't things already tits up? What's the Royal Navy fighting with now?

Dunno maybe we're just gonna let the French navy do our dirty work for a while.

Are the Royal Navy retiring thiers too? Or just RAF?

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by winny

Dunno maybe we're just gonna let the French navy do our dirty work for a while.

Are the Royal Navy retiring thiers too? Or just RAF?

Royal navy are retiring theirs to. Were relying on the tornado to our jobs for us, but already they are over pushed in afghanistan as the runway is pretty short, where as the harriers had a 95% success rate for missions, the tornado is much less.

Until the F35 comes into active service were pretty much relying on land based aircraft and erm.... the rest of europe!!


Shocking!!

[flynlion]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

Royal navy are retiring theirs to. Were relying on the tornado to our jobs for us, but already they are over pushed in afghanistan as the runway is pretty short, where as the harriers had a 95% success rate for missions, the tornado is much less.

Until the F35 comes into active service were pretty much relying on land based aircraft and erm.... the rest of europe!!


Shocking!!

Very shocking, considering the Royal Navy's proud history. For a land based force it almost makes sense to retire it, I mean, what good is a short field capable combat plane if the big cargo birds can't get in to service it? But at sea, with limited budgets and thus small deck ships, its hard to imagine a better choice than the Harrier. I'm sorry to see it go.

[Gilly]

Anyone fancy going halves?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WOW-EX-RAF-4-S...item1e615d346b

[flynlion]

I wonder what it would cost to make it air worthy? Right now it's just a fancy paper weight.

[olife]

[QUOTE=winny;204703]Dunno maybe we're just gonna let the French navy do our dirty work for a while.

loool!!!yes but our RAFALES FIGHTERS BOMBERS CAN'T FLY WITHOUT CRASHS THIS TIMES!!
HARD TO DO A GOOD JOB AS IT!!!