Comments by "David Houseman" (@davidhouseman4328) on "Royal Navy Ships And Subs Explained ⚓" video.

  1. Double simply isn't going to happen. You may as well say a Death Star is a minimum.
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  2. Catapults are better in the abstract but the decision is what best on limited budget with CATOBAR requiring a lot of extra training and crew as well as the system cost. There are a lot of arguments on both sides, if you compare with the US they use catapults on the 100k tonne ships and don't on the 45k tonne ships.
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  3. Just the targets provide all the practical services. Troop transport, Air support, Constabulary, Humanitarian, Survey, Mine clearing ...
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  4.  Brian Coley  if we hadn't retired them before we would have by now, basically we'd just have a bit more debt.
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  5.  @jedilordlog8543  no, but the MOD is currently looking into a less powerful catapult to fly drones along side the F35B.
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  6.  @TheBooban  a combination of crowsnest and F35s own networked sensors still leave it with good awareness if worse than with Hawkeye. It is a compromise but France took the other route and have 1 carrier, I prefer our way. 2 QEs have more capacity than 4 Invincibles and even then your unlikely to get 4 as there are a lot of cost per ship like sensors, communications and control.
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  7.  Brian Coley  you aren't talking about the harrier vs the tornado but the harrier, the carriers and the escorts. But I wasn't making a point about which choice was right just that it isn't about today's capability.
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  8.  Brian Coley  I don't get what point that was trying to make?
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  9.  Brian Coley  why would you think that, current plans have us buying more than 48. It would mean for around a decade we didn't buy any fast jets.
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  10.  Brian Coley  the two options aren't 138 and 48. If anything they are the two least likely numbers. If you are looking at the buy rate it would be a lot slower than currently to spread the buy until Tempest.
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